Seti@home is very, very popular; we all know that. I read on your original website that you receive over 2 million hits per day. I can only imagine that those hits represent inquires for news on Seti@home events, news, science, software updates, etc. It seems to me that if Seti@home is THAT popular SURELY you can find and allocate the resources required to keep your websites as current as possible.

Some of the "news" I read on your websites is weeks, months or even YEARS old. While the “news” items from previous years may have ONCE been very exciting, I find that after reading them six or seven times, they have become somewhat stale. Don’t you agree?

I have been running Seti@home since it was first offered publicly and I feel that I have SOME claim on more and current information about the happenings at Seti@home. From what I read on your message boards I am NOT the only person feeling left out of "the loop".

That Seti@home is a tremendous success is wonderful. I am happy to be one very, very, exceedingly tiny small part of that success. I am sure you are very proud that you proved the concept of massively distributed computing – you really made the world sit up and take notice.

Now here is the BUT. I am reminded, however, of all the human endeavors that have been done in by their very success. Surely anyone reading this can remember examples of some company that created a run-away demand for their product but went out of business because they couldn’t deliver the goods. I very much feel Seti@home would have fallen into this category long ago if not for its unique nature. Not to put too fine a point on it, but your customer service – well let’s say it leaves a lot to be desired.

Perhaps you could create a new website that would be advertising supported (I know, I know). Then you could afford to hire some wage slaves to do the “grunt” work of keeping us all informed of the exciting things happening at Seti@home. Plus you would be creating a small number of those millions of jobs I hear are being created - annually – somewhere.

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