Hi Johnny Cool,

I have not been reading the grid's forums so I cannot comment on the "spamming" issue.

However, I would like to say that if there are any people who wish to contribute spare cycles of their computer(s) (or their employers as long as they get permission), then it is up to them to decide to what cause they give these cycles.

If they wish to crunch at the grid or here or folding@home or climateprediction or distributed.net or any other place, then it is up to them. Whilst I think that friendly banter concerning the "rivalry" between the various crunching sites is a good thing as it allows people to know about other projects which they may not have been aware of, I also feel that if someone is "spamming" another site, this could have an adverse effect on the project they are "spamming" about.

The reason I say this is because I feel that there are some very loyal people on other projects and who have a huge contribution to make to any crunching project. However, if they are continually told that what they are doing is worthless/pointless then they may simply switch off of crunching altogether.

I have said in other threads that we could try to encourage people from the grid to come here but this was solely based on the fact that there appears to be an issue with getting good WUs from the grid at the moment. If someone wants to come here and even crunch one single WU, then that is help not to WCG but humanity in its entirety. If they then leave to go back to the grid when whatever problems thay have are resolved, this is also a help to the whole of humanity.

Can I just ask anyone who is "spamming" the grid or any other projects forums to be sensible. A single post saying what WCG is, what it is trying to achieve and inviting them over here (even just to the forums) to see us should be enough. Continual posting in the forums will probably just turn people off and give WCG a bad name.

Finally, I would like to give a warm welcome to all people that have joined us in the past few week, irrespective of how or why they came here. At the end of the day, you are all here to help us all.

Thank you, Stuart.

ive just come over from the other side

while things are sorted out over there

ive been on there since 2002

ive left 1 comp over there and brought 4 over here

as johnny is a good team leader i joined his team lol

its the crunching that counts nothing else

now why should you miss that? i say start one up here...