I've no doubt we all genuinely sympathise with John and wish him well but even in his depressed, self-loathing/blaming mood I'm sure he's intelligent enough to suss that if he puts up a post, on the ex forum, apologising to Rawat and Premies ( in the most pathetic manner) whilst disregarding every valid ex perspective then it's going to elicit a barrage of posts. ( phew...that was a long sentence....how was the grammar?) 

I don't think I should have responded to him directly as I did but that doesn't mean to say I shouldn't have responded at length, generally.

Now that we have responded at length then more posts or less posts makes no difference, IMO. As I say, he must have known there'd be a big response.Whether he reads it all or reads none of it....well, who knows?