XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, alt.fan.tom-servo   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:41:24 GMT, Wayland wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > 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.   
      
   He's done it before, a lot of his postings on the TMOS project,   
   particularly to do with the original actors appearing in it, appeared to   
   be manipulations to get the fans to kick up a fuss.   
      
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