You said he should have been banned, he was. He knows he's on very thin ice. I have told him as much tonight. Do admin really have to justify every last decision? It's getting extremely boring.
I never post anything on here which I won't say to anyone face to face in the pub. That IMHO is a good test of what should be posted. In a previous incarnation I have been being accused by certain individuals of having some quite nasty illegal interests. I have invited the abuser to come and have a pint with me before a game when we could talk about the issue. I even told them the pub I would be in and the time. True to form no one has ever had the bottle to climb from behind their keyboard and meet me face to face. Spineless cowards the lot of them. There are plenty of posters who no longer bother coming on because of vile personal abuse which gets dished out.