Martin 53N 1W <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

s@h-classic has had a remarkable good run of SIX YEARS. We've learnt a 
lot in that time. Few science projects ever last that long and indeed 
the funding for s@h-classic has or is about to die.

 From what has been learnt from s@h-classic, new and more thorough ideas 
are being put to work with Boinc and Boinc-s@h for which new funding can 
be sought. Science moves on.

Boinc has already spawned an impressive amount of other new science already!

Everyone keeps talking about all the "new science" that the new BOINC
client will make possible for SETI, but I haven't yet seen anyone
explain why the new stuff couldn't be put into a SETI Classic client.
For those of us who refuse to have anything to do with the other BOINC
projects it doesn't make sense to install a whole new system to get a
new version of a client we already have.  I expected the Berkeley guys
to be smart enough to be able to package the "new science" in both the
Classic and BOINC systems.

Although, I have my doubts about how much actual "science" is being
done in either client.  My whole reason for getting involved with
this project years ago was the hope that some new data useful to radio
astronomers would turn up.  (I never for a moment expected any evidence
of any "ET" intelligences to be found.)  But I haven't heard or seen
any indication that anyone is looking for anything but ET in this data,
and while I hope someone else will get around to looking at it someday,
I'm not really expecting anything worthwhile to be done with either the
Classic or BOINC data.  So at this point I'm just riding out Classic
to the end because I don't like to quit something before it's finished.
If Classic continued a few more years I'd stick with it, but mostly out
of habit, not because I feel like it's really accomplished anything.

GIMPS, however, is doing something I actually care about, so I'm enjoying
working with that project, and look forward to devoting *all* my spare
CPU cycles to it.

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