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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and
would not answer when I asked the location of the ship.
Finally I looked at the new papers in my hand and saw
that one was a Boarding Card giving all the required
details.
It was a long walk to the ship's side and when I reached
it I saw policemen lounging about but carefully watching
passengers. I walked forward, showed my ticket and walked
up the gangplank. An hour or so later two men came to
my cabin and asked why I had no luggage. "But my dear
man," I said, "I thought this was the land of the free?
Why should I be encumbered with luggage? What I take
is my own affair, surely?" He muttered and mumbled, and
fiddled with papers and said, "Well, we have to make sure
that everything is all right. The clerk thought you were
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trying to escape from justice as you had no luggage. He
was only trying to make sure."
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