It would be power abuse to not unban Orbitz from the network as a whole as promised, that's what we're talking about. Laws should not be applied retroactively, that is one of the fundamentals of ethics (sadly, some people here have a bit more machiavellian outlook on ethics). If you don't like the rules, deal with that earlier on.

Nimrod's banning people individually from his listserver is another issue, not really worrying, although it's unfortunate how untransparantly this is done. The worrying thing is how listserver administrators here apparently follow the belief that 'innocent until proven guilty' does not exist, that decisions about bans should not be made based on evidence, and that half the listserver crew would like to dump the rules that keep the listservers even remotely transparent ('remotely' since no serious attempts at transparency have been made before, with original official listservers being kicked out of the network without any proper outside announcement).

BoggyB: I don't think you've missed anything. Your assessment seems to be correct to me, sadly.