I thought somebody should post something to balance the blizzard of complaints here.

Congratulations to the Seti/Boinc team for persevering and getting through the overload of these early days.

Anyone who reads the Technical News on Seti Classic will realize that Seti is constantly the victim of is own success and growth. It has a pile of disparate machines working flat out and highly exposed to failures. Anytime something does fail, or a s/w change has a problem, or a h/w upgrade has a hiccup, a large backlog is created which can take a long while to clear, and creates its own overload probelms.

I believe in the course of all this in 4 years Seti has never lost a user's data. This can only be achieved by a conservative approach of buffering and sanity-checking all trafic and results etc. which will further extend recovery from failures.

Congrats to the team for doing it right and persevering through this startup !

Greg E.

I am in with you on this, great work and ignore the nay sayers, she may have a couple of warts, but she is the most beautiful one in the world.

Those that can, do
those that can't, don't
and they complain and complain
and they still can't, do

Now some they do and some they don't
And some you just can't tell
And some they will and some they won't
With some it's just as well

Goodbye Stranger
Supertramp