Well Larry, First of all the SETI that keeps popping up in the HP3000L is the SETI@Home project being run by UC Berkley. For a good introduction to what SETI@Home is and what it hopes to accomplish you should visit the SETI@Home web site at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Also, there is a nice explanation of how SETI@Home actually works if you go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/about_seti_at_home_1.html Anyhow. To make processing SETI information a little more competative (and therefore hopefully get more people involved), UC Berkley has allowed people to join together and form groups. When a group is created the creator has to say what type of group he/she is creating. There are 9 choices: Primary Schools Secondary Schools Junior Colleges Universities and Departments Small Companies (< 50 employees) Medium Companies (50 - 1000 employees) Large Companies (> 1000 employees) Clubs Government Agencies Someone (sorry...don't know who) on the HP3000-L started a group named "Team HP3000-L". Since we don't really fit into any of the other group types he/she picked "club" as the group type. Each day UC Berkley runs a script that creates a "TOP 100" list for each group type. Team HP3000-L is ranked number 100 among "clubs" and therefore we have shown up on the TOP 100 Club list for the first time:) The TOP 100 list for each group type can be found at: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/team.html Hopefully this explains it. One other thing. Within each group there is a top 100 list for the members of the group. Since there are currently 52 members for Team HP3000-L eveyrone shows up on the list. Michael P. Smith Larry Barnes wrote in message ... >Michael, > >Forgive my ignorance, but could you explain this 100 club thing to me. > >Thanks > >L.A. Barnes > >"Michael P. Smith" wrote: > >> Just checked. >> >> HP-3000L is now number #100 on the Top 100 Club list. >> >> Michael P. Smith >> >> Gavin Scott wrote in message ... >> >Glenn writes: >> >> Here's a brief update on SETI and Team HP3000-L: >> >> >> >> The next time the stats for "top 100 clubs" are updated, >> >> Team HP3000-L may well be #100. :) >> >> >> >> current #100: Yams In Space, with 4,499 work units completed. >> >> Team HP3000-L....................: 4,584 >> > >> >The "Top 100" list is only generated once a day, but if you "Search for a >> >group named" you can see the more or less current totals to a group. Doing >> >this for Yams and 3000-L at the moment shows them at 4546 and us at 4585, >> >so yes, there's a good chance that today will be the day. Too bad it >> >didn't come last week through. Would have made a nice HP World >> announcement. >> > >> >G. >> > >