A letter from David Anderson

Distributed Computing Projects BOINC - space@home
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was just send in, who has become this…

Dear Sir Ulli:

SETI@home turned five years old on May 17, 2004!
Thanks for participating in SETI@home.
According to our records, you have processed 20.000 work units,
Your contribution of computer time is greatly appreciated.

Then at the bottom it says:

What’s Next?

The candidates we reobserved came from only the first 2 years of SETI@home
observations, so we’ve still got a lot of work to do.
Right now, we’re identifying a new set of candidates,
and we will request time on the Arecibo telescope to reobserve them.
SETI@home will continue with a new software architecture (BOINC)
and new hardware at Arecibo
(the Arecibo L-band Feed Array, or ALFA, a new multi-beam receiver)
that will perform a comprehensive survey of the sky.

We hope you’re as excited as we are about our search for life outside Earth.
Thanks for your continued participation and support.

Dr. David P. Anderson
Project Director, SETI@home
»setiathome.berkeley.edu

Sir Ulli

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Dear Lowfield:

SETI@home turned five years old on May 17, 2004!
Thanks for participating in SETI@home.
According to our records, you have processed 64752 work units, the most recent on May 24, 2004. Your contribution of computer time is greatly appreciated.

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Got mine too. Spammers :smiley:

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Me too, got mine yesterday… and there was me thinking they’d written to me personally :smiley:

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Thanks for participating in SETI@home.
According to our records, you have processed 4754 work units, the most recent on May 26, 2004. Your contribution of computer time is greatly appreciated.

got mine too :slight_smile:

Bully

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I suppose I’ll have one as well, but the email I use is long gone :frowning: Far too full of other spam.

DT.

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Yeah, my SETI email is long gone too :(.

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You can change your email addy if you know your SETI password… you did keep a careful note of your SETI password didn’t you? :wink:

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boooo I’ve not got an email from them :frowning:

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But then I’d have to go round changing the email on all the machines I have running :stuck_out_tongue:

Far too much hard work !!

DT.

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The client only needs your userid number, the email addy is irrelevant so that’s no excuse :Poke: :smiley:

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Me neither, don’t think they like us much.

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Might be, you did set the ‘do not spam me’ like I did (just checked because I didn’t got thses mails too).

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I’ve never got any email from Seti so I just checked my setting and the option for
“Can we send you periodic email updates about SETI@home?” and it was set to yes…
Guess they just don’t like me :frowning:

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According to our records, you have processed 1168 work units,
the most recent on May 27, 2004.

got mine too :thumbsup: