On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:14:52 +0200, "John Donson"
<harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hurrah wrote:

"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40ea81bd$0$8445$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl...
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Does that imply that at least one of the first three times a
particular WU has been sent out, has not been returned within the
14 day window?

Dunno, haven't seen a -3, you?

Yup - got two in my cache at the moment plus have seen a few others
(although cannot confirm how many as BOINC is off-line and no-one
can see their results...!

Well, DR.Maggot had some -4's.

That's my theory out the window.

Actually probably not! It is probably the scheduler sending a unit
back out either because the credit requests were too far off or the
unit expired before 3 people could return it, orrr maybe they are just
testing the system and randomly sending out units more than 3 times to
check the Science of the first 3 returns. I guess it could also be a
"possible ET sighting", I mean, a workunit worth further
investigation.