I noticed that my current stats were on the cross project stats at BOINC and elsewhere, but they use a nickname I recognize as having used on a few forums around 2006 - just not on BOINC itself.

Honestly, I don't remember going to BOINC (forums) before.

I downloaded the client and set everything up from WCG in 2006 and briefly logged into Rosetta and SETI

I tried the email addy's from the projects, but BOINC (forums) says no user exists with that email, or similar..

Is it possible BOINC stats are just using the nick I used from the setup @ WCG, and I have no account at the BOINC forums?

I have questions that are more appropriate to the BOINC forums, but I have no idea of how to get in there without setting up yet another account - but only wish to do that as a last resort (if one already exists).

Thx

You need to make an account for the BOINC forums if you want to post there. Just as you would need to make an account for any other project once you go there to sign up. The difference is that you don't have to attach your computer to the BOINC website or its forums, as there's nothing to crunch there. We're just the general questions site there (I'm a moderator over there, hence the "we").

BOINCStats and all other Stats sites download the statistics from all the projects on a daily basis. If you used another nickname on another project, it'll show in BOINCStats. That's something to take up on their forums (where you will have to sign up again to make an account), if you cannot find the answer in their FAQs

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So the BoincStats (et. al.) username isn't the Boinc username?

I'll visit WCG again to verify my user name. BoincStats is showing both previous WCG and current SETI, but not as Steve...

Thx.

So the BoincStats (et. al.) username isn't the Boinc username?.

Depends on what you mean with BOINC.

As per the BOINCStats FAQs, "Why do I have duplicate/split accounts in the BOINC combined stats?"

The cause of this is the CPID, Cross Project IDentifier. Every project assigns a new user a CPID. It is partly based on the email address you used to sign up, the other part is random.
The CPID is used by BOINCstats to identify a user across projects.
Whenever you sign up with a new project, you'll get a new account on BOINCstats because the CPID is new.

What to do to make sure you'll end up with one BOINCstats account:

* Use the exact same email address for every project.
* Run at least one system with all projects, or one system with project A and B, and one system with project B and C. If there is a project that runs isolated from the other projects, its CPID with never line up.

When you join a new project, this project assigns you a new CPID. This CPID can either change to the same CPID as the other projects, or the other projects change (one by one) to the new CPID.

It is impossible for me to manually edit your accounts to create one account. It would take to much time too do this for everyone. Just wait a while, and your accounts will line up automatically.

One last thing, which is not too important, but nice for the stats: use the same username across projects, otherwise you get a username like 'Al Bundy @ SAH / Al Bundy @ Predictor / A. Bundy @ CPDN'.

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Was the WCG account, email cross-linked to BoincStats as noted

Mystery Solved. Thx.