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25th April 2002

Our TEAM SITE IS DOWN!

I have no idea why, and I dont know if I will even be able to upload this, but the team site, and all functions at www.vr9.com are down!  This is very very annoying, but hopefully will resolve soon.


24th April 2002


Update # 44

Stats - 338 Members,  199914 Work Units complete (from 340 Members,  200236 WUs - 7 days ago)

A hectic week here in Adelaide, and not too many people sent things in.  It seems that VR9 had a few problems as well with a fair bit of down time... hopefully that is all fixed now.  We actually went a little backwards for the first time ever, with TOMaxwell leaving the team for another group.  We wish him all the best in his new team, and keep crunching hard.

Take sure to check our extensive weekly stats is the place to look to see how you compare to all our other members in many fields.  You may not have the most work units, but how do you rank in work unit time, biggest movers and shakers etc?  (updated 24th April)  (Extensive Weekly Stats)

No new members since the last update.  Looks like we need to start spreading the word again!

Member Milestones since last update:

MileStone  Team Members
1000 WUs done:  SigilScythe
500 WUs done:  Vettrock
250 WUs done:  Sooterkin. Titus
100 WUs done:  Big Daddy Stan, Yo Sam
50 WUs done:  Ronanos, Mrzywka
10 WUs done:  Kylie
1st WUs done: Brendan

Zain - Team founder and web page designer.


Another Member gets into our HALL of FAME!
Congratulations to "SigilScythe" our newest HOF member.

Any member that hits 1000 Work Units gets an entry in our Hall of FAME!

SigilScythe has been with us for a LONG time, and is a great addition to the 1000 WU club.  Congrats.


18th April 2002


Sparten sends in his 1st Gaussian and what a RIPPER!
New #4 in "BEST OVERALL Gaussian" section
(also New #4 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section)
(also New #16 in "BEST SCORE Gaussian" section)

Fintuck sends in a new PB Gaussian!
New #25 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section

~IceMan~ also sends in a new PB Gaussian!
New #32 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!

View the UPDATED profile for TOMaxwell
View the NEW profile for Alainus
View the NEW profile for Pctech


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings Alainus to our team! **


17th April 2002


Welcome to our Newest Members!
Patrick Ward and Ronanos



Update # 44

Stats - 340 Members,  200236 Work Units complete (up from 335 Members,  196253 WUs - 7 days ago)

Woo woo 200K work units!  Another great milestone for the team (all take a nice pat on the back).  Is there any limit to how high we go?

Take sure to check our extensive weekly stats is the place to look to see how you compare to all our other members in many fields.  You may not have the most work units, but how do you rank in work unit time, biggest movers and shakers etc?  (updated 17th April)  (Extensive Weekly Stats)

6 new members since the last update!  A big welcome to:

Patty, Le Duc, Daremo, Simon Treen, Patrick Ward, Rananos

Member Milestones since last update:

MileStone  Team Members
3000 WUs done:  TOMaxwell
500 WUs done:  Steve
250 WUs done:  Ashkelon, Tim Toews, Erik Anon
100 WUs done:  Sa714
50 WUs done:  Earthling

Aliens, who says they have to be smart?
Zain - Team founder and web page designer.

(PS All the Gaussians, personal profiles and other things will be updated tomorrow.  Ran out of time today..)


15th April 2002


Welcome to our Newest Members!
Patty, Le Duc, Daremo and Simon Treen

From today on, as soon as I notice a new member join, they will get their name plasted up here on our web page!  Afterall, we do love new members!


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings Bob Staples to our team! **


13th April 2002


A BIG hello to anyone looking at our site after a little email from me!
Today I got bored working backwards and randomly looked at "L"

For the couple of  months and a bit I have slowly been working through the official SETI Profiles.  Having a little read (especially of the crazy ones) and sending out an email to people that aren't in a team saying "Helloplease considered us!".

Progress is very slow as I started with "Z" and got to "P" last week.  But I jumped to "L" today, just for something different.

So a BIG HELLO to all people who read this... have a look around, feel free to write me an email or reply to the one you have got (zain.upton@seti.vr9.com).  Keep crunching hard, and we would love you to join up with us in our team of SETI Enthusiasts!

Cheers,
Zain


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!

View the UPDATED profile for Jake Johnson
View the NEW profile for Patty

Over 120 team members have now sent in their profiles!  Profiles give you an opportunity to get your own personal page, with info about you, some favourite things you do, what you think of SETI, where you come from etc.  Remember these are OUR profiles, different from the official SETI profiles (yes we had profiles first!)

If you want to view other members profiles just go to "View Member Details"
If you want to MAKE or EDIT your members profiles just go to "Edit Member Details" and fill out the form.


Two more NEW "Team Subgroup" created!
Florida Atlantic University and Harrison High School

TOMaxwell let us know about his old University, so we added it to our growing list of schools and universities that our members have gone to.  Likewise MrFireball is a current student at Harrison High School in Indiana.  A big HI to all people that go to those places that may actually ever read this!

If any other of our members have schools or universities they want listed just let us know and we can create a subgroup for you to list all your friends and colleagues on!

To see a full list of the schools and unis that people have listed click here (Team Subgroups)


~Iceman~ quickly sends in a new PB Gaussian!
New #32 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings Mister Tufqibof to our team! **


10th April 2002


Update # 43

Stats - 335 Members,  196253 Work Units complete (up from 324 Members,  191822 WUs - 7 days ago)

There we go back to the normal updates.  Not a bad week overall!  11 new members, 4K Work Units.  We keep flying up the Top 200 list, and even better still members seem to really be enjoying the things offered at this site.  Remember if you have a suggestion for something just let us know.

**COOL CHANGE** To our Weekly Detailed Member Stats
The tables were getting quite big, and those with slower connections were taking over a minute and a half to download each table!  So I have reworked them a bit.  Same tables, now with options to look at 100 members at a time.  Go check it out! (Thanks to Zmadian for picking up a little bug I had missed)

Take sure to check our extensive weekly stats is the place to look to see how you compare to all our other members in many fields.  You may not have the most work units, but how do you rank in work unit time, biggest movers and shakers etc?  (updated 10th April)  (Extensive Weekly Stats)

11 new members since the last update!  A big welcome to:

Pumpkin-Peanut, Pablo Trincavelli, Paul Davis, Titus, Anchorage Icefog, DicquiStar, Sandy, Patrick Struik, theomus, beautiful_phreak, Kylie

Member Milestones since last update:

MileStone  Team Members
500 WUs done:  Gr8Sc0tt, Andrew
250 WUs done:  WingNut, Sir.Tarris, Vigilante
100 WUs done:  Anchorage Icefog
50 WUs done:  Vega
10 WUs done:  Theomus
1st WU done:  Kylie

Maybe, if we all jumped at once they would notice us!
Zain - Team founder and web page designer.


9th April 2002


Tohm sends in his FIRST Gaussian!
New #24 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section

~Iceman~ ALSO sends in his FIRST Gaussian!
New #36 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for Pumpkin-Peanut
View the NEW profile for Paul Davis


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings Pumpkin-Peanut to our team! **
** Zain Upton brings Paul Davis to our team! **


8th April 2002


Fintuck gets in the Gaussian groove!


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!

View the NEW profile for Pablo Trincavelli


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings Pablo Trincavelli to our team! **


6th April 2002


Another member from a NEW country!
"Pablo Trincavelli" joins from ARGENTINA (new Subgroup created!)

We now have members from 36 countries!  WOOOHOOOOO.

If you know anyone that has a computer and isn't running SETI, get them in SETI!  A neighbour, a friend, a family member, or even people overseas!  We love everyone in our team, and hopefully one day will have members from ALL around the world.  Lets get that country count up.

"Team Subgroups" are one thing that our team, and no other team (that I know of) does.  They are little lists of members that have things in common.  Country Subgroups are our most popular, where you can see who else in our team comes from your special place in the world.  Other subgroups we have currently include School/University, Online games, and we are always looking to make more.  Check it out!


Lagge finds a GREAT Gaussian!
New #8 in "PERSONAL BEST Gaussian" section
(also ranks New #9 in "BEST OVERALL Gaussian" section)


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!

View the NEW profile for Pekka
View the NEW profile for Tohm
View the NEW profile for Theomus


4th April 2002


Check out all NEWLY sent in Member Profiles!!!

View the UPDATED profile for ~Iceman~
View the UPDATED profile for TOMaxwell


View the NEW profile for Ron
View the NEW profile for Wolf
View the NEW profile for Gr8Sc0tt
View the NEW profile for Sir.Tarris
View the NEW profile for Tigrrr
View the NEW profile for Sa714
View the NEW profile for Fintuck
View the NEW profile for ex-SGI:Stephane Rosa
View the NEW profile for TAF
View the NEW profile for René S@ndi Andersen
View the NEW profile for Woodsmaster
View the NEW profile for EyeSeePeeDude
View the NEW profile for Fiendish
View the NEW profile for Lagge


More members let us know who invited them
** Zain Upton brings TOMaxwell to our team! **
** TOMaxwell brings T. O. Maxwell to our team! **


3rd April 2002


Update # 42

Stats - 324 Members,  191822 Work Units complete (up from 309 Members,  170583 WUs 20 days ago)

Been longer than normal between updates (mainly due to me being interstate with study).  Never the less, an amazing nearly 2 weeks with nearly 20 more members and 20K work units!  We are now churning up the top 200 list of ALL SETI teams!

Ninth became our #1 member again this week, taking nearly 8 months to catch Matchles!  A great achievement passing over 17K work units!

Make sure to check our extensive weekly stats is the place to look to see how you compare to all our other members in many fields.  You may not have the most work units, but how do you rank in work unit time, biggest movers and shakers etc?  (updated 3rd April)  (Extensive Weekly Stats)

15 new members since the last update!  A big welcome to:

René S@ndi Andersen, [SKYBEAMER] - SETI Project, TAF, Alainus, Tommy Aycock, Rupertr, Bob Staples, R42Eklund, Vigilante, Peacefinder, Steve Unwin, SARMIENTO, terrance_teoh, Halimath, AdamH, woodsmaster, Covenant

Member Milestones since last update:

MileStone  Team Members
17000 WUs done:  Ninth
7000 WUs done:  Elem103
4000 WUs done:  Wyzzard
500 WUs done:  Fenrir, Thom Souza, BlackPearl
250 WUs done:  Bob Staples, Mortacan, Wrath, Wolfgang Bauer
100 WUs done:  Julian Cearley, Dbcsec, Gimley
50 WUs done:  Bran
10 WUs done:  mrzywka, Va3-vjc, unliving sava
1st WU done:  Apuk, AdamH, Woodsmaster, Halimath, terrance_teoh

If we all scream at once maybe they can hear us!
Zain - Team founder and web page designer.


Watch our HALL of FAME grow!
Congratulations to "René S@ndi Andersen",  "TAF" and "Galactic" ...
 for joining and going straight into our HALL of FAME

René, TAF and Galactic all joined up recently with well over 1000 work units each!  A great effort all their parts!  For those that are interested his OFFICIAL SETI personal profile and web page can be seen here: