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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--
changed my
mind about stowing aboard ship!
Here I was in Vladivostok, but I had my allotted task in
life, and as the Prophecy had stated, I had to go first to
America, then to England, and back to the North American
continent. The problem was-how to get out of this part
of the world. I determined to find out as much as possible
about the Trans-Siberian Railway, where the checks and
searches ended, and what happened at the Moscow end.
The next day I exercised and fed the dogs early, and with
them well settled, I set out with Boris and three other
Guards. We traveled some fifty miles to an outpost where
the three Guards were to replace three others. All the way
the men were chatting about how many "escapees" they
had shot, and I picked up some useful information. I learned
the point at which there were no more checks, I learned that
if one was careful one could travel to the outskirts of Mos-
cow without being caught.
Money was going to be the problem, that I could see.
I made money by standing duty for other men, by treating
their ills, and through the good offices of some of them,
treating wealthy Party members in the city itself. Like
others, I arranged to visit ships, and took my share of the
spoils of new train loads. All my "bounty" was turned into
roubles. I was preparing to cross Russia.