Listen, everyone, please stop. It has been requested on this group that this topic be dropped. Please, please, have the decency to let this topic go. If you *must* discuss it, keep it off the list in private emails. Please remember that a message written in anger is *never* on topic--well, in alt.flame, sure..... Cheers, David > ---------- > From: Gordon Spence[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 5:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: Re: Poachers Beware > > >------------------------------ > > > >Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:53:11 -0500 > >From: Ken Kriesel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Mersenne: Poachers beware > > > >I request that anyone running exponents that are not assigned to them > >by either the IPS or George Woltman pause, and ask George for a > >nonoverlapping assignment. > > Absolutely agree. I kept quiet until now, but the more I have thought > about > it, the more annoyed I got at what was done. I have already found one > prime, so my name is in the history books, I would have been extremely > p****ed off if a poacher had stolen my exponent and beat me to it. > > I do not wish anyone to risk having this happen to them. > > [snip] > > > (In my darker moments, it occurs to me that this cpu > >farm would be powerful for factoring more fully, the LLtests of someone > >who's been poaching numbers assigned to others.) > > I have access for a while to about 3 dozen quad P3-450 boxes. I had > thought > about taking *ALL* the numbers that Aaron is running for his testing and > running them on these machines. So that when he checks them in, he finds > that they have all been tested already..... > > BUT, I like your idea even better. Find a factor of numbers he has already > tested so that he *loses* the credit for those exponents. What a _great_ > idea.....Now what was that url for the program to factor to 95 bits.... > > regards > > G > > finder of 36th Mersenne prime M2976221 > > > Gordon Spence, Nokia IP Telephony > Applications Engineer Grove House, Waltham Way, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] White Waltham, Maidenhead, > http://www.nokiaiptel.com/ Berkshire, SL6 3TN, UK. > Office: +44 1628 827204 GSM: +44 385 576623 > ________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
