Hi Aaron, At 11:00 AM 11/14/2001 -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote: >Bummer... it doesn't show that anymore. :( > >George/Scott: can one of you verify what the situation is? Finding a >new one, even unverified, is big news, but if it's a glitch, we'd want >to know so we don't get our hopes up. :)
Unfortunately, we don't get to test out the "a prime has been reported" code very often :) The primenet server is supposed to email me, Chris Caldwell, Richard Crandall and discoverers of previous Mersenne primes when a new prime is reported. However, Scott reports that something about the SMTP setup got screwed up in the two years since M#38 was found. In fact, one of the reasons I was a little suspicious of the report this morning was that I had not received the primenet email. It seems that the eagle-eyed Henk Stokhorst may have been the first to know that M#39 was uncovered. Brad at Entropia.com is trying to fix the bug in the primenet reports that showed both a VERIFIED and UNVERIFIED prime discovered. It should read one UNVERIFIED prime has been found. Give him a little more time to get it just right. Having a good day, George _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
