Budget is weak but here is a small gift
Dear Bernd Schnitker,

Thank you for your gift of $10.00 via Visa on 10/27/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $10.00

Your confirmation number is:
63863

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Dear Byron Thank you for your gift of $40.00
via Visa on 10/27/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:
SETI@home - $40.00
Your confirmation number is:
63865

so ... hey folks,
keep those _ $10 _ $15 _ donations coming
they are important - it all adds up and counts.

Hope this helps
Best Wishes
Byron
Vancouver
Canada

I have 2 donations listed but I am still black. When does the color change?
I also only show I donation on my home page, why?

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Doug

DougvE,
For the first part, those doing the list of donations on here just haven't caught it yet. As for the second question, Berkeley is having a problem with their donations page. The donation should have got through but it may take some manual intervention to get it to show up. Someone else had a problem like yours and contacted the donations department. That was their reply. It was taken care of with no problem.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I know this might be considered OT, but I was wondering how much longer the OP would be on "vacation." I'm surprised it's been this long already.

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Evening All

Thank You, for your Contributions!

A bit of history about when the Green Star shows up and information is posted to your personal page.

Donations are handled by UC Berkeley. They have the setup to handle your card information safely. The script that handles the Donation emails information to Seti. The Script then parses the information to put the green star on your account and post the information to the total which then gets stored in the Boinc Master Database. At times it has problems. Currently, it appears it being ran manually before other things are turned back on (so that it does not interfere with other higher priority operations).

What this means is with the Boinc Database having issues, things are getting slowed down.

All we can do is be patient.


Thank You

Regards

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Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project.

Might this be an opportune time to split the "admin" type tasks like tracking donations and the forum from the main database on server that is not part of the main database? Thus if the big boys go for a holiday these "lesser" functions can be maintained - in the recent problems it would have been nice to see the news and throw suggestions onto the fire without fear of upsetting the repair work.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

FYI it takes a bit for the UC Donations office to do it's thing. Just this week I got the snail mail confirmation of my donation in the first fund drive, the one for Oscar.

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FYI it takes a bit for the UC Donations office to do it's thing. Just this week I got the snail mail confirmation of my donation in the first fund drive, the one for Oscar.

We'll have to thank the Acatemy for this Oscar and for His Twin. :D

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

Hello friends - Greetings - I found an extra - $39.00 - to throw into the SETI@home Money pot - I Hope this helps :)

Dear Byron Thank you for your gift of $39.00
via Visa on 10/29/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:
SETI@home - $39.00
Your confirmation number is:
63881

so ... hey folks,
keep those _ $10 _ $15 _ donations coming
they are important - it all adds up and counts.

Hope this helps
Best Wishes
Byron
Vancouver
Canada

Man, I hope I did that the right way... first-timers; can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

$50 coming your way.

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Make sure to direct your Gift to go to SETI or it goes into the general college fund to be divided equally between Departments if I remember correctly.

BUMP. ;-]

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

I guess I did it correctly. The email receipt says "Thank you for your gift to the SETI@home."

The thing that had me worried was the lack of a place to "select" SETI@Home. I suppose that was "assumed" by the URL I followed.

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $18.00 - via Visa - on 10/31/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $18.00
Your confirmation number is - 63920

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $27.00 - via Visa on 11/1/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $27.00
Your confirmation number is:63931

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $24.19 - via Visa on 11/1/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $24.19
Your confirmation number is - 63942

Thank you for your on going contributions Byron, but it makes me wonder if the merchant fees charged by the credit card companies are a flat fee or a percentage of each transaction.

Does anybody know?

Always by percentage of the total transaction - and sometimes an additional per transaction fee too.

My business accepts credit cards and they all operate the same.
Todd

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Always by percentage of the total transaction - and sometimes an additional per transaction fee too.

My business accepts credit cards and they all operate the same.
Todd

Universally both. First is a verification fee for checking that the card is good and giving the authorization number; the second is a percent of the transaction. There is also a minimum monthly fee but I'm sure that the Regents do more than the minimum.

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Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $10.46 - via Visa on 11/2/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $10.46
Your confirmation number is - 63954