"Peter Hickman" <peter@semantico.com> wrote

You lost your dignity running seti?

Running SETI has been very rewarding. There's a people problem at
headquarters (and with some of their defenders on this newsgroup), starting
with the fact that no one seems to see just how vital it is to have one
dependable, easily accessed, current and friendly point of communication.
The people who download and run work units are not "clients" of SETI @ home.
We ARE Seti @ home. We deserve better.

I strongly suspect that the nerdish ambition to reach new heights of
software brilliance has completely overwhelmed the perception of the
absolute need to "keep 'em comin".

Further, it also wouldn't surprise me if there is a serious problem of
conflict and confusion going on there, although I haven't heard anything to
that effect. My three and a half decades of working in a high-tech
environment makes me suspicious of that whenever I see the kind of dismal
results now being observed. Since I value SETI so much, it's something I
just don't want to ignore. Sometimes it takes outside pressure to break up
an internal problem.

Actually I'm not as emotional a person as I have allowed myself to be
recently on this newsgroup. I've been emoting deliberately to try to crack
into of those thick nerdish skulls that SETI @ home is above all about
people