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Seti@home & murc, part 7
For once, let's not crash the old thread before firing up a new one, all right?
To kick off: here's a little gem I found in my mailbox:
I told him I'd post his message to the forums, so there.
For the record, here's what I replied:
Anyone else got this?
Martin
[This message has been edited by Ees (edited 18 April 2000).]
To kick off: here's a little gem I found in my mailbox:
From: david nadelson <email address snipped to protect the guilty>
Subject: Seti@Home teams
Noticed your Seti group for Matrox users. I'm part of another group, "Knights
Who Say Ni!," that's much more fun, with a theme that's more interesting than
a corporate advertisement. Consider merging your group with ours - we are
16th overall (over 290,000) and have the highest work unit per day average of
anybody (over 2500 and growing every day). Check out these sites, and think
about presenting this offer to your team members!
Our group's home page: www.knsw.net/seti
Our status page: http://www2.4dcomm.com/lizard/seti/stats
david
"KWSN - Sir Also Not Appearing In This Film"
Subject: Seti@Home teams
Noticed your Seti group for Matrox users. I'm part of another group, "Knights
Who Say Ni!," that's much more fun, with a theme that's more interesting than
a corporate advertisement. Consider merging your group with ours - we are
16th overall (over 290,000) and have the highest work unit per day average of
anybody (over 2500 and growing every day). Check out these sites, and think
about presenting this offer to your team members!
Our group's home page: www.knsw.net/seti
Our status page: http://www2.4dcomm.com/lizard/seti/stats
david
"KWSN - Sir Also Not Appearing In This Film"
For the record, here's what I replied:
David,
> Noticed your Seti group for Matrox users.
Sorry, it's not my group. SteveC is the founder of the Matrox Users group.
> I'm part of another group, "Knights Who Say Ni!," that's much more fun,
I somehow doubt that, but I'm sure you've done some thorough investigation
to arrive to that conclusion.
> with a theme that's more interesting than a corporate advertisement.
Eeew, my gawd! Even more interesting? Well, I guess if you say so...
It's more like a loosely coupled bunch of nerds than a corporate adver-
tisement though, but perhaps the distinction is irrelevant for someone
from such a fun group.
> Consider merging your group with ours - we are
> 16th overall (over 290,000) and have the highest work unit per day average of
> anybody (over 2500 and growing every day).
Let me state at this point that I admire the way KWSN has been slicing
through the ranks lately. And in fact, it *does* seem like a fun group.
Let's just say I don't like the style of this particular e-mail.
It's great that you're enthousiatic about your group. However, twisting
that into petty insults towards other groups scores amazingly high on
my annoy-o-meter.
> Check out these sites,
I did. There's a typo.
> and think about presenting this offer to your team members!
I'll post this one to the message boards, and let them decide for
themselves. Okay?
> Our group's home page: www.knsw.net/seti
> Our status page: http://www2.4dcomm.com/lizard/seti/stats
Regards,
Martin
> Noticed your Seti group for Matrox users.
Sorry, it's not my group. SteveC is the founder of the Matrox Users group.
> I'm part of another group, "Knights Who Say Ni!," that's much more fun,
I somehow doubt that, but I'm sure you've done some thorough investigation
to arrive to that conclusion.
> with a theme that's more interesting than a corporate advertisement.
Eeew, my gawd! Even more interesting? Well, I guess if you say so...
It's more like a loosely coupled bunch of nerds than a corporate adver-
tisement though, but perhaps the distinction is irrelevant for someone
from such a fun group.
> Consider merging your group with ours - we are
> 16th overall (over 290,000) and have the highest work unit per day average of
> anybody (over 2500 and growing every day).
Let me state at this point that I admire the way KWSN has been slicing
through the ranks lately. And in fact, it *does* seem like a fun group.
Let's just say I don't like the style of this particular e-mail.
It's great that you're enthousiatic about your group. However, twisting
that into petty insults towards other groups scores amazingly high on
my annoy-o-meter.
> Check out these sites,
I did. There's a typo.
> and think about presenting this offer to your team members!
I'll post this one to the message boards, and let them decide for
themselves. Okay?
> Our group's home page: www.knsw.net/seti
> Our status page: http://www2.4dcomm.com/lizard/seti/stats
Regards,
Martin
Martin
[This message has been edited by Ees (edited 18 April 2000).]
Tell them we might not get the average highest WU a day, but some of us are way way faster than they are 
Ni ! 
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