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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Power of Evil which would stop our task
from being accomplished."
"You will meet much opposition and very much calum-
ny," said one. "Your metaphysical powers will not be
altered or lost in any way during the change-over," said
another.
"This is your last Incarnation," said my beloved Guide,
the Lama Mingyar Dondup. "When you have finished this
life you are taking over, you will then return Home-to
us." How like my Guide, I thought, to end on a happy note.
They went on to tell me what was going to happen. Three
astral-traveling lamas would accompany me to England and
would do the actual operation of severing one free from his
Silver Cord, and attaching the other-me! The difficulty
was that my own body, still in Tibet, had to remain
connected as I wanted my own "flesh molecules" to be
eventually transferred. So, I returned to the world and
together with three companions journeyed to England in
the astral state.
The man was waiting. "I am determined to go through with
it," he said.
One of the lamas with me turned to the man and said,
"You must allow yourself to fall violently by that tree as
you did when we first approached you. You must have a
severe shake, for your Cord is very securely attached."
The man pulled himself a few feet off the ground and
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then let go, falling to the earth with a satisfying 'thud'. For
a moment it seemed as if Time itself stood still. A car which
had been speeding along halted on the instant, a bird in full
flight suddenly stopped motionless-and stayed in the air.
A horse drawing a van paused with two feet upraised and
did not fall. Then, motion came back into our perception.
The car