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Sorry Hobbles, that was rude.  Your posts are neither rants nor are they necessarily odd.  All that is odd is that you came out of nowhere with very elaborate and scholarly posts.

Thank you for your benign words, Raoul76. However, your remark is almost preternatural in its accuracy. What is somewhat unnerving is that I myself did not realize it until late last night.
 
There is in fact a fairly odd story behind my sudden appearance. Here is a summary of it in the form of a chronological list:

1) I saw that RBM was banned and I saw my member-name mentioned in this thread.

2) I got curious regarding the banned members of this forum and why they are banned.

3) Seeing the list of member names, I came across a name that was very familiar: "Glastonbury." I read his posts and I suddenly remembered that I wrote them. I remember when I left the Fisheaters' forum on August of 2006 (with a somewhat quizzical farewell, and then the moderatress decided to ban sedevacantists right after I left) and joined this forum shortly thereafter.

4) I suddenly realized that I have been on this forum all along as Glastonbury but did not remember. But I do not know what email address I used to register, nor do I remember my password. This is because when I was a college student I made some ten different disposable email addresses (which I used to store assignments and docuмents as attachments in emails to myself: a free substitute for a memory flash drives). Most of those email addresses are either deleted or their passwords have been forgotten over the last half decade. I do not remember why I suddenly stopped posting on this forum the same month I joined. It was probably when my computer broke (and all the information stored in it was lost) and I had to get a laptop. The fact that I had so many assignments and reading lists as a Literature major may also explain the matter.

5) Almost four and a half years and two different laptops later, I began reading the forum after the SGG controversies broke out, and then again at the death of the late Abbot Father Leonard Giardina, OSB. I joined the forum completely forgetful of the fact that I was already a member. Even if I had realized it, I would have been able to log in.

So, Raoul, you were more correct than you and I had realized in saying that my appearance was "odd." This is so embarrassing, but I thought it best to honestly state the fact as soon as possible in an open and frank manner.

Post script: Yes, you can use the diminutive of the name. "Call me anything but collect," is what I heard from older folks sometimes.

I banned "RescuedbyMary" for being David Hobson.

David Hobson has had SEVERAL accounts here in the past; no less than 3:
Ultramontane, scholasticism and Gortan.

I have my reasons for believing they are one and the same.

Matthew

It seems like he could play this game for a long, long time.  After all, IP & MAC addresses can be manipulated ad nauseam.  Have you ever considered something like a "silent ban"?  My idea would be to put him on a "group ignore" list based upon the IP address that he is coming from or his User Id.  When he visits the forum, even as a guest, he would see his posts, but none of us (who are, of course, coming from different IPs) would see anything that he wrote or even have any indication that he posted anything.  Banning based upon geography (all IPs from a certain location) is, of course, risky, and I assume that you do not do that, as legitimate users could be blocked, but other than that (or not accepting new users), he could go on "forever" (or, until he dies and goes to Hell.)