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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are approaching the crucial
part. As you will observe, he rails against fate constantly.
He has no patience and I am afraid that he will depart his
life violently unless we hurry."
"What do you wish me to do?" I asked.
"You are the senior," said the old man, "but I would
like you to meet him in the astral, and see what you think."
"Certainly," was my rejoinder, "We will go together."
For a moment I was lost in thought, then I said, "In Lhasa
it is two o'clock in the morning. In England it will be eight
o'clock in the evening, for their time lags behind ours. We
will wait and rest for three hours, and will then draw him
over to the astral."
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"Yes," said the old lama. He sleeps in a room alone, so
we can do it. For the present let us rest, for we are weary."
We returned to our bodies, sitting side by side in the
faint starlight. The lights of Lhasa were extinguished now,
and the only glimmers came from the habitations of monks
and the brighter lights from Chinese Communist guard
posts. The tinkling of the little stream outside our walls
sounded unnaturally loud against the silence of the night.
From high above came the rattling of a small shower of
pebbles dislodged by the higher wind. They rattled and
bounced by us, jarring loose bigger stones. Down the
mountain