知名“地图”程式PokéMesh今天的更新文里，聊到了官方新的锁号机
制，以及确认你有没有被永ban的方法，以一个挑战官方公权力的对手
而言，他们的观察应该还是有可读之处。
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.
上个礼拜我们面临来自Niantics大规模的帐号封锁，使我们必须咬紧牙
关想方设法逃过制裁。过程中我们发现一些细节，你们会很高兴知道。
那就是新型态的软锁机制上架了。
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.
我们的软件无从察觉有无被软锁，唯一知道的是，官方的游戏客户端跟
第三方软件所遭遇的状况会很像是帐号被永久封锁了。
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.
这类新型态的软锁机制会使你2到5天无法登入，唯一知道你是不是被永
久锁号的方法，端看你有没有收到永久锁号的邮件通知。
因此，没有收到官方的邮件通知，就没有受到永久封号。