Quietly we read <VJd%e.59519$ct5.35007@fed1read04>, unable to contain our credulity we realized that Ms T <anthropoid@none.not> said this:

In reply to Bill Jillians's post:

Ms T wrote:

In reply to Bill Jillians" post:

Quietly we read <gibbleygook>, unable to contain our credulity we
realized that Ms T said this:

In reply to Bill Jillians's post:

I tried to join the umtsf seti group the other day now that I have
reset my project for Boinc (I have forgotten my seti classic password
from 5 years ago).  There is a Babylon5 group that is processing
Boinc units .. why aren't we?  If it gets set up then I will happily
join, I just wondered if anyone (Sam?) was willing to do whatever is
involved.  I'd do it myself but Sam was the former administrator so I
don't want to step on his toes.

Hi there!

Question: So, if one "joins" a team, do their accumulated points get
merged to the group then?

Just wondering as have been with this SETI deal since 1999. I had two
computers running the program, but the one I chose to activate with
BOINC (also forgot my set classic password for my personal mainly used
account) since reading this post barely has much on it. I ran it at
work only and only occasionally would recall to fire it up.

Anyway, I found the UMTSF team and wondered what to do next. :)

First you sign on to your Boinc account (we each have a web page in this
brave new world) and somehow you choose our group on the settings page
and that will be you signed up.  I'm not sure precisely how this is done
as I was signed on to the group when I created it.  They have gone out
of their way to make things easy so you shouldn't have any trouble.

So long as I'm not alone I'm happy.

Well, you should be quite happy now.., I just joined the UMTSF team! :)

Easy as.., hmm.., nothing is usually easy for me.., but this was! :-P

Thanks for joining Arthropoid.  All we need is for some of the groups
big hitters to show there faces and we should be able to get this group
rocking.

I know Sam is still around and will probably join when he gets his new
home sorted out.

Now who else is out there .....

btw and FYI it's: A*N*thropoid (human-like) not A*R*thropoid <smile>

No insult intended.  My lousy short term memory has got me into worse and also funnier scrapes.

I believe I was the one who took this thread off the crosspost to atf as had
been at one point. Feel free to re-direct this there if you think they may
have just missed that message (vs. chose to ignore).

We might make a convert but they never seem to discuss Seti so I'm not sure how serious they are about it.  Seeing as it takes up a couple of my hours a week maintaining it, it is a strong concern for me.  I'll crosspost this to alt.sci.seti to fill you in on some of the new protocols for counting WUs and other useful stuff.

I'll put a word into a couple of friends of mine who also are SETI
"crunchers" to come here to check this post out and perhaps get a few more
folks to join UMTSF (I doubt they are "big hitters" but every little bit (or
byte) counts, right?).

Well think of it as number crunching for Farscape.  The U in UMTSF stands for UK but don't let that put you off (uk.media.tv.sci-fi.farscape). The group had almost as many Americans in it as ATF has British refugees from UMTSF.

BTW we now have 400 units or thereabouts.  Units are cobblestones so they are not the same as a WU.  They ensure if you have a slow machine you get more credit for crunching a WU. Also you get less credit for crunching a 10 min WU.  I'd really like to know what the formula for calculating them is, if anyone in ASS - sorry :*) - is forthcoming.