Okay...  I was forced to change my email address from the one I used since 
Boinc Started (2005) when I set it up and really started using the Seti 
Boinc Account. What then happened is somewhat close to CHAOS. Obviously the 
email hash is going to change.. But WHY does the Cross Project Identifier 
need to be changed in the production of stats output?

Old Cross Project ID.
http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_graph.php?pr=bo&id=130450 or
http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_graph.php?pr=bo&id=71019c79ef524efd9af21814073ffaf0

New Cross Project ID.
http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_graph.php?pr=bo&id=96ce42b2d871123340db773a20707e32

If I look in any of my sched_reply_someproject.xml I come up with something 
different

<scheduler_reply>
<scheduler_version>611</scheduler_version>
<master_url>http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/</master_url>
<request_delay>303.000000</request_delay>
<project_name>Collatz Conjecture</project_name>
<user_name>Pappa</user_name>
<user_total_credit>2431146.190218</user_total_credit>
<user_expavg_credit>8735.728516</user_expavg_credit>
<user_create_time>1265920614</user_create_time>
<email_hash>3de9749c4e6a16c91875bb4264111446</email_hash>
<cross_project_id>72bfb0ef0cc023be98f1c1ddcd4355a6</cross_project_id>
<project_preferences>

I find nothing in common to correlate anything with what is in my Boinc 
Folder. There is only PROOF that it HAPPENS!

So my "historical reference" is NOW trashed... I am Impressed (Why)

What this does:
Members of Teams in Credit races "breaks" the statistics that are used 
worldwide.
Members that "thought they had a recovery for their accounts," for their 
"history" who are forced to change email addresses are hung out to dry.
Members as a result who have Projects that are down (Maintenance or 
Retired) have no recourse and are really upset (right now I only have a 2.8 
million credits hanging out there see old).

Critical? No, it does not break the Server. It only breaks the USER!

Once a user is established, there is no reason to change the Cross Project 
ID. It is hard enough to "sync it" when adding a new project. One would 
almost have to think it "should" track email hash_old + Cross Project ID 
and the add hash_new + the same Cross Project ID. The use tables could be 
updated and then projects that could not be contacted (down) would make 
little difference.

This is probably one of those things that "users" have "suffered" with no 
place to report it and no idea of what to say. Who just uninstall Boinc.

Regards

Al

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