Hi all,
some thoughts on reaching milestones earlier:
Assigned Exponents Report 18 May 2001 10:00
total
52819
to automatically generated "User ID" like S012345 [1]
10621 = 20%
to automatically generated "Computer ID" like C01234ABCD [2]
17870 = 33%
both User ID and Computer ID like S012345 C01234ABCD [3]
8040 = 15%
Cleared Exponents Report 18 May 2001 10:00
total
51788
by automatically generated "User ID" like S012345 [1]
6007 = 11%
by automatically generated "Computer ID" like C01234ABCD [2]
7034 = 13%
by User ID and Computer ID like S012345 C01234ABCD [3]
2746 = 5%
conclusion and proposal:
if the user didn't take the time to fill in his userID/
maschine ID, the chance, that he/she will not finish that
assignement is about 2-3 times higher then for other users,
as its reasonable to assume, that the
_average_ "S012345 C01234ABCD" user has roughly the same
hardware as the _average_ "jonmiller dads PIII" user.
and - probably all hardware geeks, that just want to have
a quick check of there maschine, will mostl likely be
"S012345 C01234ABCD" users, as they don't care about primenet.
proposal:
don't give out DC assignements below 5000000, if user/maschine
is Sddddd Chhhhhhhh.
don't give out LL assignements below 10000000, if user/maschine
is Sddddd Chhhhhhhh.
if the user wants lowest possible assigements, he must enter
at least one small 'x' in the ID.
that's not very elitarian and
very easy on the server side to implement
regards
tom ehlert
[1] C:>grep S[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
results.txt >rsx.txt
[2] C:>grep :.*C[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F]
[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F] results.txt >rcx.txt
[3] C:>grep S[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*C[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]
[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F]
[0-9A-F] results.txt >rsxcx.txt
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