You'll have to learn to sign a message from it if you want it back, but even then accounts don't seem to be getting restored. Also, what was that account banned for? It's not locked as potentially compromised or hacked.
It was never banned to the best of my knowledge. I was not using it for a while and just forgot the password. But for some reason I cannot restore the password - no email is sent to my gmail account (not even in spam).
It is not hacked either - no one uses it afaik.
I just have some important PMs there that I would like to access.
I thought it would easier for a moderator to check the private key rather than ripple signature (which I guess might be a bit different from that of a bitcoin, I am not sure here).
But if a signature is required, I can spend some time and figure out how to do it.