"Kirk Pearson" <kpearson@nyx10.nyx.net> wrote in message
news:1091227320.105680@irys.nyx.net...

As a friendly suggestion, please move discussions about distributed

computing

projects and clients (and the BOINC aspects of BOINC-based SETI@home) to

the

comp.distributed newsgroup.  You'll make the comp.distributed people happy

by

giving their newsgroup more (and appropriate) traffic, and you'll make the
SETI purists here happy by not mentioning the word "BOINC" :-)  Thanks!

Since the OP has yet to respond to this thread, I'll first address my reply
to alt.sci seti:

The above post may be an attempt to build trafffic on an otherwise
low traffic group.  A Google search shows 651 threads and 2020 posts
since 5 Feb 2002, but the posts were not screened for relevence. This is ~3
posts/day. The group is listed with the ISC and is in one of the 'big eight'
hierarchies, so it definitely is not a rogue group and appears to have been
legitimately created, with sufficient justification to pass vote at the time
of its genesis.

SAH was definitely chartered as on-topic at the time of alt.sci.seti's (Can
I use the acronym ASS?) creation, and, the n/g appears to have been created
with the understanding SAH would be a significant component of the group's
b/w, while leaving the possibility of spawning a SAH specific n/g if
conflict arose.

A review of alt.sci.seti's first posts, seems to support SAH possibly being
the most prominent issue driving the creation of the n/g, as can be seen by
the n/g's creator's earliest posts.

Ref: http://setifaq.org/charter-alt-sci-seti.html

Kirk - Not sure of your motives with this post. If you were attempting
to delineate SAH from other alt.sci.seti topics, you've made some erroneous
assumptions. If you were attempting to build traffic on comp.distributed,
you could have simply stated it as such, and "ran it up the pole" to see
if there were any takers. Otherwise a post of this nature can easily cause
alienation, rather than its intended effect.

If you believe there's a point I've missed, pls post back.
-- 
Strat