Yeah, unlesss someone remembers something useful.
In my opinion, this ban was caused by the 'death threat guy', suspected to be '24'. But the ips being blocked are from a very broad block, 142.177.* belonging to sympatico.ca, a major Canadian ISP.
What I suspect is that the new 142.177, making good contributions, is entirely unrelated to '24' or 'death threat guy'. '24' in particular is very unlikely to be capable of posting anything even remotely coherent.
--Jimbo