On 18 Oct 99, at 18:17, George Woltman wrote:
> Historically, poaching has been confined to the smallest *untested*
> exponents. At present, there seems to be little to no poaching going
> on.
I had a double-check on exponent 1745789 "poached" in early September
by a user called "rick" who appears to have submitted a lot of
results in this range using systems described as PIIs. My assignment
was a "legal" PrimeNet assignment running on an old Sun Sparc 2, it
was about halfway through a 10-week run when it was "poached". The
PrimeNet entry for this exponent at the time it was poached would
have shown that it was over 80 days from expiring.
Since the system is too slow to do anything else, I let it finish,
which it did earlier this month. It's now retired from GIMPS/PrimeNet
- it would have retired after one more assignment anyway, as the
system would need more fixing than is justified to run into Y2K.
Thanks, Rick. Perhaps you would care to get assignments from PrimeNet
in future, rather than poaching other people's?
Regards
Brian Beesley
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