知名「地圖」程式PokéMesh今天的更新文裡，聊到了官方新的鎖號機
制，以及確認你有沒有被永ban的方法，以一個挑戰官方公權力的對手
而言，他們的觀察應該還是有可讀之處。
http://www.pokemesh.com/pokemesh-4-3-release-and-informations/
During the last week we face an huge ban weave from niantics
that force us to work hard on several patch to prevent this.
While working on this we discovered something interesting that
could make lot of you really happy. A new sort of temporary ban
has been introduced.
上個禮拜我們面臨來自Niantics大規模的帳號封鎖，使我們必須咬緊牙
關想方設法逃過制裁。過程中我們發現一些細節，你們會很高興知道。
那就是新型態的軟鎖機制上架了。
We have no way to distinguish this ban in-app, but from what we
know, the official client, and 3rd party apps, will act just
like the account got a permanent ban.
我們的軟體無從察覺有無被軟鎖，唯一知道的是，官方的遊戲客戶端跟
第三方軟體所遭遇的狀況會很像是帳號被永久封鎖了。
These new kind of soft ban will make your account unavailable
for a time period that can go from 2 to 5 days, and the unique
way you have to really know if your account has been permanent
banned is through the email that will be sent in case of permaban.
This mean, no email from niantic, no permanent ban.
這類新型態的軟鎖機制會使你2到5天無法登入，唯一知道你是不是被永
久鎖號的方法，端看你有沒有收到永久鎖號的郵件通知。
因此，沒有收到官方的郵件通知，就沒有受到永久封號。