Quote Originally Posted by si_the_geek View Post
I can understand your reasoning, and see that it could be useful at times.

However, based on the interface we have for banning, I don't think they are actually stored any differently - I get the impression that permanent is just a much bigger date range.
I doubt that it is stored as a date really far into the future. I am sure there is a field in the DB called "perm" (or something similar) that when it is set to true, will not allow that user/ip login ever again