[Resaz0]

I have heard of a friend banned twice from BBO because somebody else once used his pc and IP address and later on has been often abandoning tables.
Is this possible? If I allow anybody to connect from my pc I will be considered responsible of any future uncorrect beahviour of this person?
Thank you for the attention
Ciao, Patrizia

[bb79]

Yes it is possible. As far as I know when a user is banned, all the computers he used to play at BBO are also banned.

Here is my experience: I had introduced BBO to my father (who had taught me to play bridge) when I visited my country during winter break. I installed the program in his computer, and got a username for him etc, and he also played using my laptop once or twice. Later I flew back overseas and he hasn't played at BBO using my laptop for more than 10 months. however whenever he gets banned from Main Bridge club (because he's booting too many players thinking he's still at yahoobridge), I'm also banned from MBC when I try to login from my laptop, but I'm not banned if I use my desktop. I had contacted BBO support about this inconvenience and they had told me they can't do anything about it and suggested me to use my desktop computer during ban period if I want to play in MBC.

[hotShot]

Obviously you can't just ban a user by his ID, because he could just get a new ID.

Obviously you can't ban a user by his IP, because people who dial into the internet get a different IP each time they connect.

So one has to exclude the computers used to enforce a ban.