JM is still around and doing well I understand. He and Matt came to an understanding a while back and JM has backed off posting for a while. He promises he will return soon though.
I agree with you about his ability to stimulate a discussion, though I rarely agreed with him and felt he did "cross the line" too often. He does appear to learn and come back better the next time. His personality is one of those that always seeks to "push the limits" and as such he engenders such strong polar reactions. I do hope he will return soon. Though I think it might bode well if he abandoned the JM persona and established a new one. Some of his troubles were due to the baggage that has become associated with that name. Of course he should never reveal the connection to make such a switch work. In nearly thirty years of BBSing, chatrooms and message boards it has been a rare event that I've requested the termination of another users account. Only 4 times in that span. You have to go pretty far out there to make me want you gone. JM never got that far out. Bob never got that far out. Strangely enough those that did...were booted. Not so much because I asked, but because those I asked to boot were so bad that admins had no other choice. Currently, there is no one posting to IH that I would ask Matt to can their account. It's amazing what you can learn from the folks posting here.
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