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From: Don Allen <dona@amigo.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:09:36 -0600
Fwd Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:44:39 -0400
Subject: Re: SETI@home Project Erroneously Sending Same


>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:02:41
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
>Subject: SETI@home Project Erroneously Sending Same Packets Of Data

>Source: Wired News,

>http://www.wired.com:80/news/print_version/technology/story/20088.html?wnpg=
>all

>Computer users who are contributing to the SETI (search for
>alien life) project are inadvertently wasting CPU cycles by
>processing data that has already been scanned.

>Due to failures in coping with the overwhelming response from
>volunteers, the SETI@home project has been erroneously sending
>the same packets of radio data to its 500,000 participants.

Thanks for posting this article. It explains why I've been
processing the same packet from a few days ago and also why my
processed units stats haven't been getting updated. I was just
about ready to delete Seti off my machine.

Don


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