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Why should the net be excluded from inventions we have on ground. Many people in the plowshares are working quite intense with group dynamics to stimulate everybody's participation an so on. Please email the listmanagers if you have ideas about this. Give introductions upon these topics and try to put forward questions and information that directs the discussion. Wibewatchers - to try to make the email list a more humane place.