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
--
at Crawley. The day was swelteringly
hot now and I had just missed the bus. The next one would
be too late. I plodded along through the streets, being mis-
directed by person after person, because the firm I was going
to see was in a very obscure place. At long last, almost too
tired to bother, I reached a long, unkempt lane. Walking
along it I finally reached a tumble-down house which looked
as if a regiment of soldiers had been billeted there.
"You wrote an exceptionally good letter," said the man
who interviewed me. "We wanted to see what sort of man
could write a letter like that!"
I gasped at the thought that he had brought me all this
way out of idle curiosity. "But you advertised for a Tech-
nical Writer," I said, "and I am willing for any test."
"Ah! Yes," said the man, "but we have had much trouble
since that advertisement was inserted, we are reorganizing
and shall not take on anyone for six months at least. But
we thought you would like to come and see our firm."
"I consider you should pay my fare," I retorted, "as you
have brought me here on a fool's errand."
"Oh, we cannot do that," he said. "You offered to come
for an interview; we merely accepted your offer."
I was so depressed that the long walk back to the station
201
seemed even longer. The inevitable wait for a train, and the
slow journey back to Clapham. The train wheels beneath
me seemed to say: "You should write a book, you should
write a book, you should write a book." In Paris, France,
there is another Tibetan lama who came to the West for a
special purpose. Unlike me, c