On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:

> Sounds like stalking to me.

Not to me.  The radio ham thing is a tenuous connection, except that the
name is right.  

> Just live with it I guess and if the occasional exponent gets
> triple-checked, I don't anticipate losing too much sleep.  Yeah, it
> sucks, but what lengths should anyone go to to find the guy and say
> something?

Well, with your history, I suppose that is how you would feel.  I does not
bother me that the occasional exponent gets triple checked because it
expired and both the new owner and the old owner complete it, that's
pretty unavoidable and it wasn't deliberate.  It bothers me when people
deliberately do it without caring that they may be screwing someone else
over.  There's a big difference between accepting bad things because they
just happen, and just sucking it up when someone is doing it deliberately
to you.

And I would like to point out that it is not "the occasional triple
check".  I did a quick look through all the exponents that k5gj has
returned results for, and well over half, perhaps 75% are triple (or
higher!) checks.  

I asked for help reaching him because it appears he is a long time GIMPS
participant and well known, if he was joe nobody there would be no point.  
I know that I would certainly want to know if I was wasting 75% of my
computing power.

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