That's alot of prefferences.
Imagine 5mil Seti users wiht even 3 machines per user, Who's got the hard
drive space? That's 45 mil pages at three pages per machine. Ouch!!!

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No, it's not 45 million pages; it's 45 million database entries which
might take 1K each. That would require 45GB for the main db file, and
probably another 15GB for indexes. Well within the capability of modern
storage devices.

Technically quite correct. I was picturing the webpages in my head not as 
data base entries. The point was they could hardly spare the space when 
there is so much else to concern themselves with. Remember the concept is 
for other projects to also take off using Boinc. It is far better to use the 
consumer (member) hard drive space where possible. Otherwise it becomes 
another point for centralized data collection on users And who needs another 
big brother