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This is a collection of recent posts by JMS to the newsgroup
rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
See also http://america.net/~judge for Dirk Loedding's archives
of JMS posts.
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:14:20 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: an update from jms
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



> While we're on this subject of scripts, I apologize if this has been
> addressed before, but... Any chance of also doing the 'Crusade' scripts at
> some point, including the "Unmade" episodes a few of us were fortunate
> enough to read on the late, lamented bookshelf.com?
>

Should these first volumes go as planned, then we will look to release
more down the road, including "Crusade."

The site has now gone up, at least insofar as it now has a page there
where folks can sign in their email addresses in order to be notified
when it goes fuly online.  It's both babylon5scripts.com and
b5scripts.com

It would be great if all the folks seeing this could pass along the
word to the various other websites and newsgroups where Our People are
still hanging out, to get the word out...though the funny thing is that
when the sign-up page went up for 30 seconds just for a test, 5 people
signed in within 30 seconds....

jms



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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:30:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attn JMS - scripts for visually impaired? (was Re: an update  from
jms)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Amy Guskin wrote:
> JMS, I'm passing along a note I got from someone who's having trouble getting
> on the newsgroup.  Rick writes:
>
> >> This is important to me in light of JMS's most recent message
> about the scripts, because I'm Blind, and I'd like to put a bug in his ear
> to possibly get these released in some kind of accessible format. (I blew
> out my optic nerves in a time of extreme high blood pressure) But I can't do
> this if my messages won't appear on the forum. <<
>
> I have the poster's e-mail address if you'd prefer to reply privately - just
> let me know.
>

Unfortunately, the company doesn't have the systems by which to do
this, so at this point there's not much we can do, and the scripts have
never been transferred to brail, so 5,600 pages would have to be done
before we could even talk about the production side.

jms



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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:33:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: an update from jms
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



> >
> >It would be great if all the folks seeing this could pass along the
> >word to the various other websites and newsgroups where Our People are
> >still hanging out, to get the word out...though the funny thing is that
> >when the sign-up page went up for 30 seconds just for a test, 5 people
> >signed in within 30 seconds....
> >
> >jms
>
> Your people are coming...
>

And then some...the number of folks imputting their email addresses to
be notified when the site goes on line blew out the system.  I received
a number of emails from folks who got error messages because the
database was full, so if anyone else has gotten that message, they'll
be fixing the system this evening so it can handle a bigger load.

Forty-eight hours in, and we blew out the system...amazing....

jms



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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:15:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: an update from jms
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Jan wrote:

> After all the auditoriums filled to standing room only, all the extra
signings
> and spotlights you've had to squeeze in to accomodate fans, you're still
> surprised?
>
> Curiosity's rampant as to how many it took to fill the database...care to
share?
>

I don't know the figure...I know that by the end of the first day it
passed the one thousand mark, but where it cracked the mainframe beyond
that I don't yet know.  Also, the main one to use for email addresses
is the babylon5scripts.com address, the b5scripts.com should not be
used for now to help their system handle it all.

The other good thing about getting folks in early is that we've
discussed internally the idea of limiting the period during which these
scripts will be available.  We've talked about doing this for just one
year so that they have value as limited editions so that they can be a
real investment, vs. a two-year window, vs. an open-ended situation.
We're still backing-and-forthing on this one.  We've also discussed
limiting this to a 5,000 or 10,000 print run, but I don't know if
that's practical since some will want the full set and some won't and
we might get some lopsided results. Either way, if we do go for a short
window of one sort or another, it's best to get everybody in sooner
rather than later.

(As noted, we're doing 7 scripts per book, so it starts with the
original draft of "The Gathering" plus 5 episodes, through "Mind
War"...continues cleanly until the end of the series, where there are
only 5 episodic scripts remaining, so we'll be putting in "In the
Beginning" to round it back up to 7 again.)

jms



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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:48:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS: Babylon 5 on Space: A&B DVD Menu!!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Aphelion wrote:
> Not sure if this has been discussed before, but:
>
> http://tinypic.com/dhbfk3.jpg
>
> It isn't a hoax.  I own the DVDs and this does indeed appear on the menus.
>
>
> Aphelion

Now that's just screwy....

jms



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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:53:16 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS: On visual effects...
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



Thunder, Agent '005 wrote:
> I was reading in the most recent Star Wars "Homing Beacon" about how one
> of the visual effects people said it was far cheaper to do cgi versus
> traditional models and blue screens. I can see the practicality, but is
> this really so (in terms of cost)?  I would think it would cost just as
> much, if not more, to have a team of people doing effects on computer

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