On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:43:34 GMT, Martin 53N 1W
<ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

With that Attitude, looks like you'll be quitting then.

I appologize if I seem to have an attitude, but I think I have some
reason to be annoyed.  I've been dedicated to this project for 5
years, I run it on all my machines, I've encouraged it on many others.

At the time I registered, 1999, I don't believe I had a password, and
none is needed to run the client, so it isn't like any of us usually
used it.  Most people signed up (remember back when it was a new
thing!) and just ran the client, 5 years have passed, and I'm still
running the client.

You do for one individual out of FOUR MILLION!

Four million registered perhaps.  Read the message boards, you'll find
many other in the boat I'm in.

From my stats:

You have completed more work units than 	98.624% of our users.

4 million or not, I'm in the 98% percentile of active users.  AND I
DON'T CRUNCH A HECK OF A LOT OF WORK UNITS compared to many.  But if
the project isn't interested in their 98% most productive users then
there won't be a project for long.  If people like me (with account
problems) are 98%, then I guess the producers are not that important.

All contributions are important, but s@h have zero spare staff for 
anything more than occasional PR. Do you want something Microsoft-esq, 
or do you want some real science to be done? And yes, the stats are good 
fun.

I understand they are volunteers, great.  Us crunchers are all
volunteers too.  I'm not looking to break any records, I'm not
battling out with buddies for work-units, I'm not involved in an
clan's or crazy junk like that.

I do however like to know, that whenever I want, I can see the
contribution to the project I made.  Its that simple.  I'd like to be
able to send a message to those running the project (even if I have to
wait for a response).  Offering NO email address is just not right.

I can drop a line to PJ on Groklaw (who I can guarantee gets far more
mail than Seti@Home - if they HAD an email address) and get a
response, and she's one person.

After 5 years of dedication, 98th percentile, I think I deserve that.

Your solution?

1: Quit, go die, be spoon fed for the rest of your days, bye bye;

Jez, I'm not trolling here.  Heck, if the project isn't interested in
communicating with their members, then I'll take my cycles elsewhere.
It'd be a shame though, I like the projects goals.....  

Thats why I inquired here if there was any way to contact the project.
The only responses I've gotten is that I'm not important.  Ok, fine.
But it would be better to hear that from the project.

2: (Now the /easy/ part...) Just create a new account for yourself with 
your new details.

Perhaps you won't believe me.  I did create a new account, and I never
got an email verification.  Perhaps the server went down after I
signed up.  But thats not the point, I see no reason I can't continue
with my old account.  System transistions are hard, but they shouldn't
be black & white in terms of user accounts.  If I tried to pull that
in my datacenter I'd be fired on the spot!  I can't imagine the
effects of treating volunteer users that way....

And no whinging because it obviously wasn't important enough for you to 
have kept the existing password. (The stats & dates are just a bit of fun.)

Man, or child, you wouldn't know how many passwords I have to retain
for my job, much less my personal ones.  Not to mention, there was no
need to keep a password, even if I was given one, as the client
doesn't require it.  Heck, you can lookup your stats without the
password either.