Interesting thoughts on the apologies. I tend towards an apolology in a thread as if I have stepped out of line, the chances are that my post will have upset more than one person even if my remarks were addressed to a specific person.

The one thing I disagree with are the public apology threads. I suppose there might be an extreme case where such an action is appropriate but in most of the cases I have seen, they merely serve to make others aware of some trouble that has occurred in a thread that they hadn't read, or in one case, an incident that was of no real importance that occurred between say 6 people in an ICQ chat!

Jon