Re: Mersenne: Poaching -- Discouragement thereof

2003-01-23 Thread Richard Woods
Brian J. Beesley wrote: > Sure. So would eliminating the report altogether. 1) Exaggeration is unnecessary. My proposal was not that extreme. :) 2) After much discussion on the GIMPS forum, I've withdrawn my current proposal (which had been extended from the initial one I sent to this mailing li

Re: Mersenne: Poaching -- Discouragement thereof

2003-01-23 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 22:50, Richard Woods wrote: > Here's what I've just posted in the GIMPS Forum. > > - - - > > _IF_ PrimeNet has automatic time limits on assignments, ordinarily > requiring no manual intervention to expire assignments or re-assign > them, then why would any GIMPS partici

Re: Mersenne: Top 1000 & connection to server

2003-01-23 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 07:57, Denis Cazor wrote: > Hello, > > for my part, I looked for my place in the top 1000 list > - on www.mersenne.org /top.html my place is 388 this week with > 100 LL tests. > - on mersenne.org/ips/topproduccers.shtml (updated hourly) > I found to be at the 26444 plac

RE: Mersenne: Poaching -- Discouragement thereof

2003-01-23 Thread Richard Woods
> I sometimes make forecasts about number of exponents in some ranges > to be checked in in particular periods. Just for fun. So the system administrators could either (a) provide you the password for the full version of the assignments report, or (b) produce a report with aggregate data that is