Youssef Khalid Al Assad should step her prior to the flight
Michael F. Baffuto
Trimming off the rest of this post is unnecessary.
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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as the priests chanted:
"Oh Spirit of the Visiting Lama, returning here to us,
hasten for the hour of your awakening draws nigh. A
second stick of incense is lit to hasten your return."
As the monk solemnly drew a stick of incense from the
box, the priest recited :
"Oh Spirit of the Visiting Lama, we await to reanimate
and nourish your earthly body. Speed you on your way
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for the hour is at hand, and with your return here another
grade in your education will have been passed. A third
stick of incense is lit at the call of returning."
As the smoke swirled lazily upwards engulfing my astral
form, I shivered in dread. It was as if invisible hands were
drawing me, as if hands were drawing on my Silver Cord,
drawing me down, reeling me in, forcing me into that cold,
lifeless body. I felt the coldness of death, I felt shivering
in my limbs, I felt my astral sight grow dim, and then great
gasps wr