The way I see it the person was extremely gracious by apologizing in public to the whole list and needed to share the reprimand emailed to them so the rest of us would have a reference for the apology. It makes perfect sense to me but I'm mental too...just ask my husband. Everyone should be entitled to their own opinions. Someone may be more sensitive than another about a certain subject. We just need to exercise the delete key when this happens with the exception of vulgarity. That is the one area most of the list members seem to feel strongly about. Think about it, we don't know each other and so we don't have any idea about anyone's likes, dislikes, marital status, political or religious affiliations. "Can't we all just get along?" Who said that? WOW...Flame war...that's a cute phrase. :)