Subject: Re: S@H is soliciting money.
From: Wayne Brown
Date: 20/03/2006, 17:23
Newsgroups: sci.astro.seti,alt.sci.seti

In alt.sci.seti Martin 53N 1W <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:
Martin wrote: [No I'm not going mad! There's more than one "Martin"!!]
Martin 53N 1W wrote:

What don't you like about Boinc other than that it is "new" and has more
features?

The only reason I stopped running SETI@home was (and still is) the fact that
the name sounds like a euphemism for a sexual act.

Yes, it is a deliberately 'slightly controversial' name to sex things up 
a little. Very good for getting more people interested.

Also very good for getting some people *un*interested, including me.

-- Wayne Brown (HPCC #1104) | "When your tail's in a crack, you improvise fwbrown@bellsouth.net | if you're good enough. Otherwise you give | your pelt to the trapper." e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 -- Euler | -- John Myers Myers, "Silverlock"