I have good news everyone, dispite taking over a month I am glad to tell you Orbitz has now been blocked from playing online via the list servers.

(Now, let the party begin)

It took a while as one of the lists (Contrabandent) wouldnt enforce the ban in a timely manner, thus Orbitz could still play online dispite the other lists having him banned. Monolith and myself have agreed to disconnect from Contrabandent. With Contrabandent disconnected, orbitz wont be able to access an active list. This will require a minor repatch on some jj2 users clients if they havent yet done so. You can read about this on the MOTD on the GIP, both on j2o and http://digiex.net/jj2gip

Due to Orbitz constant bypassing, his ban has now doubled to 2 months. Also due to it not taken affect until today, his ban now officially starts. So he is banned until the 30/11/05. After then we will check to see if he causes anymore problems, and react much faster. If you see him online his IP and time/date should be recorded, and passed onto Monolith or myself. Apprehend logs prefered.

We do feel bad, well I know I feel very bad for how long this took. Users have been wanting Orbitz removed for months and it took until now to finally get it done. I personally have taken action to ensure if there is ever a next time, action will happen within days, not months. Orbitz has damaged our community, people playing online has been decreasing over time as most active servers were crashed. We would like to warn anyone who goes round crashing, we will be watching and taken action in some cases.

Now everyone, you have no excuses, get back to playing JJ2 online.