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

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

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

Richard K. Moore (rkmoore@iol.ie)
Tue, 7 Mar 1995 10:41:23 +0000 

Message-Id: <v02110114ab81d04f16f9@[193.120.234.108]>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 10:41:23 +0000
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore)
Subject: cr-3/7> re: fear & panic -> Robert rules?


Vigdor Schreibman wrote (to roundtable):
        >stay away from the fear, panic, and censorship

Excuse me.  WHAT fear, panic, and censorship?

I think we're talking about something much more ordinary and civilized 
than all that.  We'd like our lists to be able to function as 
productive forums, and so we should use appropriate technology.

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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