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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:41:24 GMT, Wayland    
   wrote:   
      
   >Not that I have any problems with someone getting under JMS's skin.   
   >Good work, btw.  But I think a lot of it had to do with that whole   
   >list of announcements that came shortly afterwards.   
   >   
   >I wouldn't put it past JMS to threaten to leave, using you as a   
   >convenient excuse.  All of a sudden that drums up a lot of interest,   
   >people heaping on praise and paying more attention to what's going on.   
   >Then as per expected, you get banned and he returns.   
   >   
   >And then *WHAM* look at all these cool things he has in the pipeline,   
   >since he now has a riveted audience and one of his main detractors is   
   >now gone.   
   >   
   >Maybe I'm giving him too much credit and it was a coincidence that all   
   >that happened shortly afterwards.  But it seemed awfully convenient.   
      
   I agree completely, and do not for a moment believe it to be   
   coincidental. He has shown himself in the past to be quite masterful   
   at manipulating his acolytes, and this is just another example of it.   
      
   Paul.   
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