1. I can help with little or no inconvenience
2. It will take dozens (maybe hundreds) of years before anything turns up.
3. Stop going through BOINC. It is a big pain in the ass to get set up vs. the old SETI home page. I am afraid that unsophisticated computer users will give up before they get on board.
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