Nick wrote:

Hello.
I've been using SETI classic for about 5 years and have just started
to use BOINC/SETI on a couple of PCs, before seti classic goes the
way of all things.
I'm confused about how the BOINC credit system works. Is there a web
page that explains this?
I have looked. Without success, but I am a newb.

Thank you

Nick

SETI@home member since 30 Oct 1999
Total credit 39,235.68
Recent average credit 637.95
SETI@home classic workunits
as of 15 March 2005 22,865
SETI@home classic CPU time
as of 15 March 2005 189,199 hours

They send each WU to about 5 people. They then award the average credit 
claimed by the first three to return a valid result - provided that they are 
returned within the deadline. Other later results get the already awarded 
average - again provided they are on time.

HTH

Brian