I will guarantee anonymity except in cases of blatant abuse.
I will achieve anonymity by tallying the results in
uncorrelated tabulations and then deleting the emails.
(I know this loses interesting correlation data, but if
resondents want anonymity it's hard to avoid.)
I know that this anonymity promise depends on trust and that
you have no particular reason to trust me. Someday, I hope.
I will post results Saturday.
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yes( ) ( )no Should RoadRunner be subjected to some kind of UDP?
yes( ) ( )no ... active UDP (cancels) ?
yes( ) ( )no ... passive UDP (drop messages) ?
yes( ) ( )no ... all-groups UDP? (as opposed to specific groups)
yes( ) ( )no Are you a Usenet sysadmin? How big:_ How long:_
yes( ) ( )no Should another server be subjected to UDP? Who:_
yes( ) ( )no Should UDPs be used more often?
yes( ) ( )no Should UDPs be used less often?
yes( ) ( )no Would you have answered this survey without anonymity?
xxxxxxxx end of survey xxxxxxxx
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of the private life of another, and then I had to
finally decide; should I take over this other body to substi-
tute for mine? Mine was failing rapidly, and to accomplish
my allotted task, I had to have a body to "tide me over"
until I could change its molecules to mine.
I settled myself, and waited for the blind lama to speak.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
Slowly the sun sank behind the distant mountain range,
outlining the high peaks in the late effulgence. The faint
spume streaming from the towering pinnacles caught the
fading light and reflected a myriad of hues which changed
and fluctuated with the vagaries of the soft evening breeze.
Deep purple shadows stole from the hollows like creatures
of the night coming out to play. Gradually the velvet dark-
ness crept up along the base of the Potala, climbing ever
higher, until only the golden roofs reflected a last gleam
before they too were submerged in the encroaching dark-
ness. One by one little glimmers of light appeared, like
living jewels placed upon blackness for greater dis