But, projects (at least SETI) have turned resend off as it is hard on the
DB.

jm7


                                                                           
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There are big advantages to granting constant credit per app;
it eliminates the incentive for credit cheating,
and the need to check for it.
It should be possible to prevent cherry-picking,
e.g. by resending aborted jobs.

-- DPA

[email protected] wrote:
> This does allow cherry picking.  A custom client  could reject all tasks
> that were going to take longer than average if that was known, as in High
> versus Low angle ranges on SETI.  It would also grant full credit for
noisy
> SETI tasks (15 seconds and quit).
>

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