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If there isn't such work being done (which I somehow find hard to
believe but don't know of any myself), it should be ... it would be
fascinating I think  ... another very good idea, Valdis!

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Is there any serious research on the distortion of information as it
travels along a network path -- similar to the popular children's game
of "Telephone"?  A Google search brings up nothing.

Here is an article on distortion of message in the popular adult game
of "Politics".  ;-)
-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26935-2004Aug23.html


Valdis

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