Mary Conner wrote: > This exponent is not an isolated example. I have a printout of the first > page of the Assigned Exponents report from Dec 7th. I compared it with > the Assigned Exponents report from a few minutes ago, and three exponents > off that first page have moved from their old accounts (three different > accounts) to this other person's account (same account for all three). > Their assignment dates have remained the same, and the run times were not > reset. I don't know if George manually moved these exponents, but I do > know at least one was being regularly updated every few days, and another > had over 3 weeks to go until expiring. If George didn't do it, then > there's got to be a way for me to move an exponent, by hook or by crook.
I once noticed, by accident, a way of "hijacking" exponents. I was doing some more trial factoring on some exponents that had been factored to a lower depth than was the default depth in newer Prime95 versions. One of the exponents must have been assigned to someone as a double check. After I checked in the unsuccessful trial factoring attempt, I noticed that the exponent appeared on my assigen exponent list. When I checked in my trial factoring result, the PrimeNet server must have changed ownership of the DC to me. I reported this to Entropia. I haven't tried since, but I used to think that that would have been fixed. So if that person who received the three assignments you mentioned does extra trial factoring work, that might explain why he gets other peoples exponents (and maybe doesn't even know it). Did the factoring depth of these three exponents change over the reassignment? Alex _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
