On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:00:37PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > you just choose an irc-name which somebody else has chosen before and who got > banned. everybody can take anybodys username in irc - unless those names are > registered. then it's harder :-) Typically bans are against ISP server domains, not against nicks, for precisely that reason. I was caught in a too-broad-ban once though, but it just took a simple email to straighten it out.