"One time I was publicly attacked on open forum, and the culprit would only apologise via PM, which typifies what I'm on about."

Ah! So just publish the apology in the original thread... ;-)

Some people seem to have a delusion that some special 'right of privacy' exists for PMs and emails - A certain little potty mouth here thought he could do that to me via PMs after pressure on him to stop that in open threads - boy did he scream about 'infringement of his privacy' when I published his foulness in an open thread - oh and the moderators tried to delete it, but I was able to post more often and more fast than they could delete it, till they got the hint. He finally left here soon after.

I'll happily publish such a private apology for public abuse, publicly.

They won't keep on playing THAT clever game once the word gets out Dear! :-)

But then having been trained for many years by absolute nasty a*s in the art of bullying, now when I walk thru the Valley of The Shadow of Evil, I fear none, as, thanks to them, I can now happily assume at any moment, without any long terms guilt, the Mantle of the Meanest Bastard in the Valley! Did study theater too, that helps...

:-)

All 'Niceness' is only a Social Veneer, scratch it hard enough for long enough, and it suddenly flakes away from everybody. Sadly.

Pick a constant id and stick to it - if you don't want it to be your real name, that's Fine.

Robin