limiting the inconvenience of SETI downtime

I know SETI have had a lot of problems recently.

Unfortunately, at this end, there seems to be no way to stop SETI trying to connect with your website when it is down. With a dial-up modem, I trust you can imagine the inconvenience.<p>

It seems that the only way to prevent SETI continually trying to connect is to disable BOINC network access entirely, to the obvious detriment of other running projects.<p>

All I want to be able to do is to disable SETI network access.<p>

Is there no way that this function can be provided ?
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