roundtable: Re: cr-3-7LISTNAMEHEREgt; re: fear and panic -LISTNAMEHEREgt; Robert rules?

roundtable: Re: cr-3/7> re: fear & panic -> Robert rules?

Re: cr-3/7> re: fear & panic -> Robert rules?

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:36:05 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:36:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: cr-3/7> re: fear & panic -> Robert rules?
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"Robert's Rules of Order" is not a state-of-the-art methodology.  It 
will not facilitate consistent, coherent, and purposeful dialogue to any
greater degree here than it does in its use at the US Capitol and other
similar places of public policy dialogue.  Nevertheless, "Robert's Rules"
adapted to this medium is certainly better than the process generally in
use.  I would welcome experiments of this kind, if Richard (and several
knowledgeable alternates) would be willing to perform the functions of
"parliamentarian" in this list, and begin a simple rule book adapted to 
our needs. 

Vigdor

Vigdor Schreibman
<fins@access.digex.net>

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On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, Richard K. Moore wrote:
> 
> Permit me to suggest we adapt "Robert's Rules of Order" -- the mechanism
> Anglo societies use to run orderly meetings.  There's no censorhip 
> involved in the net adaptation, the moderator simply encodes each 
> subject line by category:
>      o  point of order
>      o  catcall from the back bench
>      o  on topic x:
>      o  call for a vote
>      o  second the call
> 
> and so on.  We can have parallelism & non-censorship & get work done 
> as well.  The moderator gets to identify the categories.  Their 
> credibility and the value of the list depends on them doing a good job.
> 
> ---
> 
> * I move that such a procedure be promulgated among net list moderators *
> 
> * Is there a second? *  (;>)
> 
> 
> Richard K. Moore
> <rkmoore@iol.ie>

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