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It would be safe to say that James Askew will never be allowed on this board, or anywhere else in the Zone. Some people's behaviours are so reprehensible that to ban them effectively is to ban their perpetrators; Askew is the worst I have seen.
If you're fronting for him, Hans, you might want to ask yourself why... but your assumption is correct: permanently banished.
I defer to Robert the Moderator, of course... but I'm confident that I'm stating the unanimous opinion of the long-time Zoners who remember MSNBC Space.