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?
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the
Great Thirteenth Incarnation of the Dalai Lama, to look
at the aura of those who visited Him "in friendship". My
beloved Guide, the Lama Mingyar Dondup, a very capable
clairvoyant, trained me well. He also taught me the greatest
secrets of astral traveling, which now to me is easier than
walking. Almost anyone, no matter what they call their
religion, believes in the existence of a "soul" or "other
body". Actually there are several "bodies" or "sheaths",
but the exact number does not concern us here. We believe
-rather, we know! that-it is possible to lay aside the
ordinary physical body (the one that supports the clothes!)
and travel anywhere, even beyond the Earth, in the astral
form.
Everyone does astral traveling, even the ones who think
it is "all nonsense"! It is as natural as breathing. Most
people do it when they are asleep and so, unless they are
trained, they know nothing about it. How many people,
in the morning, exclaim: "Oh! I had such a wonderful
dream last night, I seemed to be with So-and-so. We were
very happy together and she said she was writing. Of
course it is all very vague now!" And then, usually in a
very few days a letter does arrive. The explanation is that
one of the persons traveled astrally to the other, and be-
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cause they were not trained, it became a "dream". Almost
anyone can astral travel. How many authenticated cases
there are of dying persons visiting a loved one in a dream
in order to say good-bye. Again, it is astral traveling. The
dying person, with the bonds of the world loosened, easily
visits a friend in passing.
The trained person can lie down and relax and then
ease off the ties that chain the ego, or companion body,
or soul, call it what you will, it is the same