Sarah Anne wrote:
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Yet when I try and type in my details for a new account, i get:
http://www.sarahanne.co.uk/temp/seti_error.png

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Also note:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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 June 17, 2004
We are working on fixing the network problems that are resulting in dropped connections to the data server.
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Good luck,
Martin