"Steve VE4LR" <ve4lr@arrl.net> wrote in message
news:3F5E0892.93ECB3A9@arrl.net...

What upsets me is that I've only done about 170 wu and I'm way up in the
85% area and less that 2000 of 4 Million have done this well (?).  It
seems a lot of those people do a couple of wu and quit.  It would strike
me that to maintain an accurate idea where SETI@home is going is to prune
users who have not done a wu for a certain period of time and those who
have only done a very few over an extended period.  I'm in the top 15%
for doing 170 units, thats not realistic.

I for one am glad that SETI don't 'prune' users who have been inactive for a
certain amount of time. Maybe if they don't return a unit after 6 months or
something they could be dropped but not if they've actually done some
crunching. I started SETI on a 486 and stopped after a few units. They were
taking quite a while (Think hundreds of hours) and encouraging me to leave
my PC on 24/7 which I couldn't really afford.

Now I have a faster main PC running an Athlon 2200+ and a couple of Celerons
on my LAN and was reminded about SETI a wee while back I'm crunching again I
like the fact that when I check my stats it says SETI@home user for: 4.263
years. even if my average results returned per day is only .33

Also, being in the top 15% for doing 170 units *is* being realistic. It's
based on statistics, how could it not be realistic?
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~misfit~



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