[LINK] The Great (online) Debate

[Adam Todd]

>>1. The Great (online) Debate
>>The offices of the Liberal partyís Richard Alston, the ALPís Carmen Lawrence,
>>the Democratsí Brian Greig, the Greenís Kerry Nettle, and One Nationís 
>>Pauline
>>Hanson have all agreed to participate in an online forum on IT policies and
>>promises in the run up to the 2001 Federal Election.
>>http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?154936
>
>Now that is weird!  Can anyone imagine any of these individuals writing 
>their own answers?  I read the link on zdnet and it only appears to be an 
>async 'send us questions' and we'll pass them on sort of 'debate'.  That's 
>not a debate.  That's an email survey!
>
>Let's get zdnet to do a real time debate - online chat - and make them do 
>some keyboarding on the fly as a REAL debate.

I'll supply the IRC server network!

*THIS* I gotta see!