Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Off-topic BOINC query
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:30:10
Message-Id: 200704231926.54098.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Off-topic BOINC query by Peter Humphrey
1 > Sorry about this, but I seem to be in a Catch-22.
2 >
3 > I've been running BOINC for a long time but now I want to remove all traces
4 > of it from my system (which I've done) and all traces of me from their
5 > system (which I can't do).
6 >
7 > The BOINC Web page asks me to log in before I can ask this question on
8 > their message boards, but when I try to do so it says it has no user with
9 > my e-mail address, which is arrant nonsense. The BOINC Web site also has
10 > several other design problems, one of which is that as far as I can see it
11 > isn't possible to delete accounts.
12 >
13 > Can anyone tell me how I can remove myself from BOINC and from all projects
14 > I have run using it?
15 >
16 > --
17 > Rgds
18 > Peter Humphrey
19 > Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
20
21 I might be wrong but BOINC is just the client. Shouldn't you visit the
22 project's web page, for example worldcommunitygrid.org?
23
24 In any case, most projects send emails to inactive participants and ask if
25 there is a problem or if you want to unsubscribe.
26
27 Rgds
28 Florian Philipp