Ikram al Mutawa should frighten her as yet the match
rab.blanchedoseck
Trimming off the rest of this post is unnecessary.
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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part of the world. From our height the world now looked
like a crescent moon, but with the Aurora Borealis, or
Northern Lights, flashing across the poles.
We moved on and on, faster and faster, until we out-
stripped the speed of light for we were disembodied spirits,
soaring ever onwards, approaching almost the speed of
thought. As I looked ahead of me I saw a planet, huge and
menacing and red, straight in front of me. We were falling
towards it at a speed impossible to calculate. Although I had
had much experience of astral traveling I felt pangs of
alarm. The astral form of the Lama Mingyar Dondup
chuckled telepathically and said, "Oh Lobsang, if we were
to hit that planet it would not hurt them or us. We should
go straight through it, there would be no bar."
At last we found ourselves floating above a red, desolate
world; red rocks, red sand in a tideless red sea. As we sank
down towards the surface of this world we saw strange
creatures like huge crabs moving lethargically along the
water's edge. We stood upon that red rock shore and
looked upon the water, tideless, deadly, with red scum
upon it, stinking scum. As we watched, the turbid surface
rippled unwillingly, and rippled again, and a strange un-
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earthly creature emerged, a creature also red, heavily
armored, and with remarkable joints. It groaned as if
tired and dispirited, and reaching the red sand, it flopped
down by the side of the tideless sea. Above our heads a
red sun glowed dully casting fearful, blood-red shadows,
harsh and garish. Abo