At 08:40 PM 12/5/2001 -0500, George Woltman wrote in reply to Mary Conner: >>On a purely technical note, In the event that the other person does >>eventually check back in, is there a mechanism in place to either tell his >>machine or mine that it should abandon the exponent > >No. The server never contacts the client. That's too much of a security >risk in my book.
However, when the client does contact the server (every 28 days by default, IIRC), will it not get an "this assignment does not belong to us"? I know that I had that happen while I had QA and primenet work queued on the same machine, and in fact it happened often enough to be rather annoying. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
