Just an on-line twinkle...

[P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk]

...for Greg Schofield's message:
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>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:50:37 +0800
>From: "Greg Schofield" <g_schofield at dingoblue.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Twinkling
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>I have had a long experience of both consensus and formal type 
>meetings.
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>Both are open to manipulation. There is no structural way of 
>ensuring democracy. Formal meetings at least make available 
>some recognisied tools for dealing with manipulation, whereas 
>the informality of consesus does not.