Can someone help explain what this error means?

[Gurberly]

The message is
[20:49:01] *priv* SERVER: Client ":FI:L.F" got banned from Server for 5 minutes, reason "Excess flood"

The user got the message when they tried to connect, any idea what it means?

thanks
G

[m&m's]

looks like the spam count from the server.ini file kicked him but if he was on the way in ??? i dont know why he would be kicked enless he was hiting keys as he was joining ????? dont know for sure