No, I've had occasional trouble connecting during net prime time(18:30hrs-23:30hrs ET) but have usually managed to trade packets with the server within 12 hours. (I have to manually connect so I don't usually try back in an hour.) I don't know how science projects work in South Africa, but here in the US they tend to be over conceptualized and under funded (goals much bigger than their budgets) and so they sometimes have problems. Still, for a project on a shoe string budget, their doing pretty well for themselves. Maybe if everybody on team HP3000 sent them $20US or so they'd do better. Scott Gates Contract Programmer Trigon BC/BS of VA 804-354-7625 MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08 r: C.55.00 SUPRTOOL/iX/(Version 4.1.04 VAR) PH 7.29.C6 -- AMISYS v9.4 BTW, I'm leaving the HP3000-l for a while. Be back when I find another job. Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:11:23 +0200 From: Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SETI (Off Topic) Is it just us, or has this noble project collapsed? We have unable to connect and receive more units for a week or two. There is a bleak notice on their front page and technical news letter page, pointing out that two of their ancient ftp servers have died. I would have thought that Sun (one of the sponsors) would have leapt in with a rescue plan, but I guess it's not in their nature to do so......but what a marketing opportunity for H-P - hundreds of thousands of techies, all desperate to assist in the search for ET, will see H-P as the great Terrestrial Knight in Shining Armour. And all it would take is two or three loaner ftp servers. Please let me know if it's just us that can't connect, or has the project died? Regards Neil Scott Gates Contract Programmer Trigon BC/BS of VA 804-354-7625 MPE/iX HP31900 C.05.08 r: C.55.00 SUPRTOOL/iX/(Version 4.1.04 VAR) PH 7.29.C6 -- AMISYS v9.4