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.
xxxxxxxx beginning of survey xxxxxxxx
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
--
two men came in from the outer office.
"This man has no papers," he said, "He will have to be
deported, take him to the Holding Cell."
"But, Sir!" said one of the Officers, "I actually saw
them, they were in order."
"Are you questioning my ability?" roared the Senior
man. "Do as I say!"
A man sadly took my arm. "Come on," he said. I was
marched out and lodged in a bare cell.
"By Jove, Old Boy!" said the Bright Young Man from
the Foreign Office when he entered my cell much, much
later. "All this is a frightful pother, what?" He stroked his
baby-smooth chin and sighed noisily. "You see our position,
Old Chap, it really is just too too simply desperate! You must
have had papers, or the Wallahs in Quebec would not have let
you embark. Now you have no papers. They must have been
lost overboard. Q.E.D. Old Boy, what? I mean to say . . ."
I glowered at him and remarked, "My papers were
deliberately torn up. I demand that I be released and be
permitted to land."
"Yes, yes," replied the Bright Young Man, "but can
you prove it? I have had a gentle breeze in my ear which
told me exactly what happened. We have to stand by our
uniformed staff,
#randsent
"A more common form of psychogenic amnesia is dissociative amnesia. In
this state, an individual may experience memory loss which is
restricted to a particular period of time, such as the duration of a
violent crime. This memory loss is too extensive to be explained by
ordinary forgetting, and instead may reflect the fact that the
information is too stressful or traumatic to be remembered.
Dissociative amnesia is a psychological phenomenon, rather than a
physiological one, and may often be resolved with the help of
therapy."
#randsent
More on psychogenic blackouts [escapes] which must be prevented:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_amnesia
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n1_v41/ai_8773339
http://www.psych.uic.edu/education/courses/behav_science2000/reed/behavscilimbic03132000/sld023.htm
**VRL-1 nerves: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Pain.html
TRPV2 (also called VRL-1) responds to temperatures above 52 Celsius.
"Painfully hot"
VR-1 responds to capsaicin. VRL-1 does NOT. There is a world of
difference.
#randsent
5. The parts of his/her brain that deal exclusively with movement,
contraction/relaxation of all voluntary muscles [including speech
muscles but excluding breathing] muscles should also be relaxed into a
state of hyperpolarization.
#randsent
6. The parts of his/her brain that deal solely with voluntary - but
not involuntary -- control of breathing should also be relaxed into
hyperpolarization.
#randsent
7. All pain reflexes -- somatic and visceral - should be totally
paralyzed.
#randsent
8. All psychological protective mechanisms should be completely
disabled.* [See notes on psychological protective mechanisms]
#randsent
9. All mechanisms that decrease consciousness as a result of pain
should be disabled. Here is an example of that mechanism:
#randsent
Quote from http://www.internetarmory.com/self_defense.htm :
"It is speculated that various organs of the body can send pain
impulses to the brain stem indicating a severe or overwhelming bodily
injury. The reticular activating system responds by producing a
functional "shut down", which results in loss of consciousness within
a second or two."
Once again this mechanism should be completely disabled.
#randsent
10. Any mechanisms that specifically allow emotions, will, or
psychological states to alter any perceptions -- including pain
perception -- should be completely disabled.
#randsent
11. All parts of his/her body cont