In article <97BOc.7283$N77.377316@news.xtra.co.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz> wrote:

John Donson wrote:

Kirk Pearson wrote:

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!

Oh? Are there many SETI-purists who object to BOINC?

If there are they're a dying breed. Or will be soon.

Kirk, stupid request mate. SETI is moving to BOINC, therefore BOINC-based
SETI@home is on-topic for these newsgroups buddy. You want these NGs to die
in a few months when SETI classic is turned off?

Evolve or die.
--
~misfit~

G'day misfit,

Please don't misunderstand me.  I am not a SETI purist.  I am a distributed
computing zealot, as anyone who's visited my website in the past 5 years can
attest.  BOINC is an important part of the SETI@home project, and is making
great contributions to the overall SETI project.  But, the two Usenet
newsgroups created for seti were created for discussing the science of SETI
and not for discussing the distributed computing client applications used
for SETI@home.  You, and others who have not been here since these newsgroups
were created, need to remember that SETI@home is not all of SETI--it is only a
part of it.  To "evolve or die," as you suggest, we should leave the SETI
newsgroups for discussion of the science of SETI overall, and for the
scientific aspects of SETI@home, Optical SETI, and any other projects which
arise to further the study of SETI, and move the discussion of the technical
and user aspects of SETI@home and BOINC, and all other distributed computing
projects, to comp.distributed, where they are more appropriate.  The SETI
newsgroups will not die, as you suggest.  They will contain conversations
more in line with the original goals for the SETI newsgroups, conversations
in which the "SETI purists" to which I referred previously, are more
interested.

To answer John's reply: most SETI purists probably appreciate BOINC, since it
is doing so much to further the study of SETI, but they DO object to the
discussion of technical and user aspects of BOINC in the SETI newsgroups, as
you will see in many past posts.

-- 
Kirk Pearson, editor of Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects
http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -- John Lithgow