You wanted evidence against Estel_? I would say you followed almost 0 of the drama that was on-going before his ban to ask for such.

From what I read on mailing lists too, he didn't delete his posts but the mods deleted his extremely insulting and rude posts (along with one of mine and one from woody too which were posted as retorts to him).

His first ban if you followed it was just for a few days (3?) known as a cooling-off ban to calm him down after all the FUD he was spreading here.

However, instead of taking the ban and then coming back what he did was to create another account called letse and posted using it which is clearly against Forum Rules. He admitted to creating this account FYI. This extended his ban period from 3 days (I can't remember exact figure) to a month. After he was given this ban he claimed that he created this second account to speak to Board of Directors to complain against the mod/admin who banned him. Does it mean that just because he's an old member here and knew someone in the BoD he can circumvent his ban this way while the rest of us if banned should wait for the ban to expire? Even if you don't see anything wrong in his FUD surely his feeling of entitlement was wrong.

After this, another account was again created and seemed like Estel again at which point the mods did the necessary checks and banned the other account without increasing Estel's ban period again and he was told on the mailing list by several people not from Council to think what he was actually speaking about.

IMO, he should have been given infraction points much earlier but he was allowed to spread FUD for quite a long period of time before the mods felt he had gone over-board.