Okay, this may be a better place to let Matt know you did not recieve the email... Please do not give you email but your ISP

Matt I did not recieve the email. My ISP is Comcast.net
or Earthlink.net
or rr.com
or aol.com etc
or berkely.edu
or somewher.org

This may help to identify problem ISP's or how to insure it happens correctly next time.

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Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project.

I got mine, but it was trapped by a spam filter (that I check occasionally because it is fairly agressive). Earthlink.com

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BOINC WIKI

What email is this?

RoadRunner.

(I suppose you can tell I didn't get it, since I asked my initial question... lol!)

APK

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http://torry.net/authorsmore.php?id=1781

"The object's hull is made of SOLID neutronium: A single StarShip cannot combat it!" quote Mr. Spock, Star Trek original series, episode title: "The Doomsday Machine"

What email is this?

From: Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Dan Werthimer <donors@ssl.berkeley.edu>

Dear Misfit,

SETI@home needs your help. But before we tell you why - and how you can help - Dan and I would like to thank you for your role in the SETI@home success story.

First, we would like to thank you for your past financial support. We would also like to thank you for your participation in SETI@home. During the first SETI@home project you personally assisted us by searching for extraterrestrial signals in 1000 data chunks and providing 1.120 years of computing time. We want you to know we appreciate your efforts and the efforts of the other 5.4 million volunteers who have donated over 2.4 million years of processing time. When we started, people thought our projection of 100,000 users to be overly optimistic! You helped us prove that public participation in scientific computing could work. You also helped us to see that this type of community effort deserved to be more common. That's why we developed the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing or BOINC. BOINC has the benefit of allowing our volunteers the option of sharing their processing power with other worthy projects in addition to SETI@home. These projects range from looking for gravitational waves to searching for cures to diseases.

But all these successes are just a beginning. As you are aware, SETI@home has successfully transitioned to operating under BOINC. Because of this, new searches are on the horizon for SETI@home. We are releasing a new version of our processing software that increases the sensitivity of our search by a factor of two or more. We are building and installing a new data recorder at Arecibo. This data recorder operates in conjunction with a newly installed receiver that has the capability to observe seven places on the sky simultaneously. It also increases our sensitivity by another factor of five. These increases in sensitivity mean that SETI@home will have capability of detecting signals that are three times more distant than we could before. The region of space we can search will expand by a factor of thirty. That's thirty times the chance that your computer will detect that faint signal from another star.

This increase in capability isn't without cost. Following the "dot com" bust, the commercial support that kept SETI@home running has largely disappeared. Because of this loss of support, we can no longer count on matching funds from the University of California. We are rapidly approaching the end of what funds we do have. We we will need to raise about $750,000 to pay for these new capabilities and to keep SETI@home operating for the next year. Without this support SETI@home may be forced to shut down.

We hope that you will consider making a further donation to SETI@home. You can make a secure donation by credit card by clicking this link. Instructions for donation by check or money order are there as well. Unless you specify otherwise, your donation will be noted by a star icon next to your username on the SETI@home pages and your username will appear on our list of donors. If you do not wish to have this recognition you may indicate that as well. Please be assured that regardless of whether or not you choose to have your donation be anonymous, SETI@home will not share your address with other organizations.

You can check on our fundraising progress by visiting our main site at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

Thank You,

Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Author and Futurist
and
Dan Werthimer
Chief Scientist, SETI@home

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me@rescam.org

I did not receive the E-Mail, and I am my ISP.

It was not rejected by our spam filters. Other messages from SETI to customers and friends came through fine.

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For me Outlook 2003's anti-phishing protection dumped the email in the junk folder, and stripped out the links. The actual email was blank and the text arrived as an attachment along with lots of other attachments for all the gifs etc.

I found the email but it was messed up and if I had not been expecting it I would have simply emptied the junk folder without trying to read it.

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Ah found it at last - In the 'Junk E-mail' folder.

AFAIK, this is a MS Outlook folder and the filter conditions come with OL.

If so, this is really bad news as there must be thousands of SETI participants who use Outlook, who won't see the message unless they sepcifically look for it.

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Please check in your account/SETI@Home preferences/Miscellaneous that the question "Should SETI@home send you email newsletters?" is set to "Yes".

If it's set to "No", then there won't be any mails.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Please check in your account/SETI@Home preferences/Miscellaneous that the question "Should SETI@home send you email newsletters?" is set to "Yes".

If it's set to "No", then there won't be any mails.

Fair point, but it doesn't address the issue that many people who do want to receive these mails do not get them either because their ISP filters them, or their own e-mail program dumps them in the trash automatically.

However anyone feels about this fundraising drive, it's bad that many people may never learn of it.

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Fair point, but it doesn't address the issue that many people who do want to receive these mails do not get them either because their ISP filters them, or their own e-mail program dumps them in the trash automatically.

However anyone feels about this fundraising drive, it's bad that many people may never learn of it.

That was my point that Team Leaders should notify Team Members that the Fundrasing Drive is underway... They Normally have access to email addresses and what they would write should get through the SPAM filters...

Pappa

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Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project.

Please check in your account/SETI@Home preferences/Miscellaneous that the question "Should SETI@home send you email newsletters?" is set to "Yes".

If it's set to "No", then there won't be any mails.

Fair point, but it doesn't address the issue that many people who do want to receive these mails do not get them either because their ISP filters them, or their own e-mail program dumps them in the trash automatically.

However anyone feels about this fundraising drive, it's bad that many people may never learn of it.

This explains why I didn't get the fundraising letter.

I have "no" checked in my SETI account.

I think "newsletters" means, well, newsletters -- somewhat routine stories about the project, and I would say that the funding request isn't a newsletter.

Wearing my ISP hat for a moment, the sheer volume of trash we receive is staggering. It's easy to blame ISPs for blocking legitimate mail by mistake, but when you're sitting in my chair, it's block more spam or lose customers.

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