"Jim Kent" <j.g.kent@markusplace.com> wrote in message
news:ll5ijv0l79aqb1stjl0on0oi703pktsh7n@4ax.com...

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:08:06 +0200, "FalconFly" <falconfly@ewetel.net>
wrote:

You have about 48 hours (max.) to return them, in order to get the

Results into the

scientific Database.

Unless the Client expires, you'll indeed always get credit in the Stats,

but cacheing too

long makes the Results useless
Absolute max. I would stive for is less than a week, e.g. 3-4 days.

Hold on here....  48 hours before becoming invalid?  Then how can you
simultaneously suggest a three or four day cache?  That seems
logically inconsistent, because every one of those units would be
worthless.

Your assertion about the 48 hour liimit to get into the scientific
database is a bit hard to believe, because a lot of people are still
running machines that take that long to do a single unit.  If these
are all invalid that effort is utterly pointless and a waste of their
time, electricity, and all the work unit management effort at SETI
that supports these users.

Yeah, but the guys with 2.5hr/WU machines will have already sent the 2 - 3
confirming WU's that will get credit for the science, long before your unit
comes in.

All you'll be doing is building stats, and adding a small amount of
additional corroboration to the earlier corroborating units. Not saying
additional corroboration is a bad thing, per se, but the major 'science'
will have already been 'done'.
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