There seems to be a misapphrehension here. Fox was not banned for making a sock to tell me. I explained the situation to him when he did that, and advised him to wait a week.
He got permanently banned because he then CONTINUED to make socks after that explanation. Furthermore, he actually got one of those socks independantly banned, by another global, for bashing!
So if he was going to go and make lots of socks and get banned for flaming anyway, e-mailing me wouldn't have made any difference!