In article <4738c772$1@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
 "~misfit~" <misfitnz@yahoot.com.au> wrote:

Patrick Vervoorn wrote:

<snip>

It's indeed frighteningly quiet in here. Hopefully that's because
everything SetiBOINC related is running smoothly and without any
problems for everyone. ;)

Hopefully.

Have you browsed the Web forums recently? There's an enormous amount of 
traffic there, even though it only represents a small fraction of the 
user base. Most of the technical problems can be attributed to the 
mostly aging, donated or recycled, and bodged-together servers in the 
back end, and the lack of staff to simultaneously nurse these systems 
along and advance the project's software-development and 
results-analysis efforts. There's a saying, something to do with 
alligators and a drainage project ... ;)

-- 
Odysseus