When changing purge->ban in 3.0, should we also expose the VRT_ban_string functionality from VCL instead of relying on magic parsing the difference

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] "Poul-Henning Kamp" 

| I'm sort of hessitant to mandate the one-string format, because it
| will force some people to collect into one string, components which
| the BAN code will immediately split back into those components.

Apart from the slight silliness and inelegance of this, does it cause
any real-world problems?  I agree it's not optimal, but you probably
don't have a zillion bans a second so its performance is not critical
and having a consistent UI is, IMO, pretty important.

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