Wayne Brown wrote:

In my case, it's a reluctance to do unnecessary work or to solve the same
problem twice.  SETI Classic has been running fine on my machines for
several years.  I took the time to set up scripts and procedures that
keep it going with very minimal intervention from me.  Since I always
keep a fair number of WUs in the cache, I don't usually notice outages or
need to care about them.  In fact, I often go for weeks without thinking

This features (caching, keepalive,...) now all included in the boinc client...

about SETI at all, or remembering that it's running.  Now I'm expected
to throw away something that works well for my purposes and replace it
with something new that I'll have to learn how to set up and manage, just
so I can keep doing what I've already been doing anyway.  If I have to
install and learn new software and procedures, then I'm going to do it for

It is easy to install, and it is funny to install and use something new !

a project that hasn't already annoyed me by inconveniencing me.  So I've
installed GIMPS and that's all I'll run after SETI Classic goes away.

But you must see it from the Berkeley site, too. There was problems with Classic, too. Like cheating, sending out the WUs a lot of more like on boinc (boinc sends the WU out 3 times - classic up to 12 times),...
Now you can partipicate in a lot of more projects.
This all is a good further development of classic.

Regards

Lars