Thanks Beestie, for posting the problem so eloquently. I believe it was you who understood it after the first ban. I admire your clarity, and when you really uncork a post, as you do from time to time, I am downright gay for you.
Thanks Bruce, for seeing the simplest and best solution for ALL involved,
including chiko.
I somewhat regret being the level of hardass that I am about it, but in my current state of mind, I prefer honesty to politeness for the sake of being nice.
I would never ban someone just because they were intolerably irritating to me personally.
The subject of my original post is now being discussed in this thread:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=12740