accessing freenode from an IP address that ran tor

[Robas, Teodor]

Hello,


I need some advice with this situation: I can not get access to freenode 
irc servers. It says that tor exit nodes are banned, even if I stopped 
tor two days ago. Now I have mailed to them the PGP encrypted nick and 
password hash and so on.

What I want to know is: do I need to run tor everytime I want freenode 
access ? Because I just want to connect directly.
And a second question: Does anybody have knowledge it those ip adresses 
ever get unbanned ?


Regards,
Teodor