hi! i'm also running seti@home... Results returned: 381 Last result returned: 14/11/01 10:16:34 Total CPU time: 1.04 yrs Avg. CPU time: 23:54:56 Rank: 208,591 of 3,370,621 (93.799%) this is on a compaq 366 mhz notebook. i also use a nice little tool - setispy - with it. nice little program that adds months of interest to keeping the thing running! i have one question - does anyone ever notice that at times quite anomalous results are returned very quickly to the db and _no_ credit for the result is added to your account? i've seen this happen 2 or 3 times (no idea if or how often it's happened and i don't notice it). if anyone else has noticed it, any idea then what gives? Bob Johnson SonorkID: 0.20 bob@sonorkdev.com bob@sonork.com --------------------------------------------------------------- * Sonork! - THE Professional Instant Messaging Solution * --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sonork.com http://www.sonorkdev.com SonorkDev! - PO Box 6362 - Plymouth, MA - 02362 tel: +508-523-5063

actually, the 100.x series starts at 1 and there are now a bit over 10,000 users within that series... ...and a few others with lesser amounts. Bob Johnson SonorkID: 0.20 bob@sonorkdev.com bob@sonork.com --------------------------------------------------------------- * Sonork! - THE Professional Instant Messaging Solution * --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sonork.com http://www.sonorkdev.com SonorkDev! - PO Box 6362 - Plymouth, MA - 02362 tel: +508-523-5063

we could always open a tracker room on sonork for the cp-er's...in fact, i think one will be soon anyway, for those who want to use it. ;o) Bob Johnson SonorkID: 0.20 bob@sonorkdev.com bob@sonork.com --------------------------------------------------------------- * Sonork! - THE Professional Instant Messaging Solution * --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sonork.com http://www.sonorkdev.com SonorkDev! - PO Box 6362 - Plymouth, MA - 02362 tel: +508-523-5063

i did try trillian - for about a week. it's a nice idea in some ways, but it was buggy (at least when i tried it a few months ago) and awkward. has it been fixed since? besides - sonork is not just about "chat" - it's a bit more than that, really. irc and icq are fine if that's are what you're looking for (umm...yeah, right. hehe). Bob Johnson SonorkID: 0.20 bob@sonorkdev.com bob@sonork.com --------------------------------------------------------------- * Sonork! - THE Professional Instant Messaging Solution * --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sonork.com http://www.sonorkdev.com SonorkDev! - PO Box 6362 - Plymouth, MA - 02362 tel: +508-523-5063

Hrmm. i have to say it's been interesting reading the posts to this thread. one comment comes immediately to mind: "to each his own!" seriously, the critiques are noted, and most of the arguments i would have brought up (or will) have already been posted. first, sonork is _not_ intended to compete or work *just* like icq or msn or aim or...it's not really a public messenger: it's designed to work as an intranet/VPN app. in fact, the IM/file transfer/conferencing facilities are simply features built into the Sonork engine - Sonork is technically "a localization and data transfer engine". that said, we are primarily pushing it's IM incarnation for obvious reasons. about the gui - ur right, it's not full of bells and whistles and all the baggage that entails. you want to compare it to icq? then check the installer size, the installed storage space, and resource usage. also, is suspect that msn does a lot of what it does calling other applications/libraries/etc. in windows, so perhaps when u check memory used ur not getting the full story. the thing is, i use sonork every day - it's never crashed on me, and when other things are collapsing it tries it's darndest to keep itself up. the GUI is spartan, admittedly and intentionally, and mainly for the reasons just stated, but there is a LOT to it - many useful ways of doing things that u just need to get used to (which is not at all hard!). and if you *really* don't like the interface, but do like the concept, well, feel free to download the client source code and work some magic on it! try that with MSN or the others... admittedly help and documentation could be better, and we are working on that, however there is a lot of documentation and information available on the website, and i am pretty easy to find if you have a question (just keep it simple tho!). ;o) big points: privacy and security. ALL traffic is encrypted whether it be p2p messaging, conferencing, file transfer, etc. u wont get spam with sonork, especially in it's intended application (i guess that should be true of others, too but anyway...). seeing as our resources are rather limited, to say the least, what you're seeing is quite an accomplishment, and we are quite proud of what's been developed (migs is a coding wizard no matter HOW you cut it!) - and we have MUCH more planned for implementation when we can get to it. one thing is is very gratifying - the interest this community has shown - be it critical, supportive, or neutral. one thing you can be sure of i