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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
Message-ID: <90004.102830UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 4 Jan 90 15:28:30 GMT
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In article <6894@pdn.paradyne.com>, reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W.
Leach) says:
>
>   According to the following reference, the first computerized conferencing
>system that was built in 1970 implemented a Delphi communication structure.
>
>
>              Murray Turoff, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz
>              Computer Support for Group Versus Individual Decisions,
>              IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-30(1),
>              January 1982, pp. 82-91.
>


But like a lot of good work, this was before its time.  Now that real
discussions take place distributed in time and space over these nets,
it is time for a Delphi-like mechanism to evolve, bloating rn even
more 8-)

        lee