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Dear SETI@home user:

Thanks for your interest and participation in SETI@home.
This is our first email newsletter.
Contents:
    - Project status
    - Version 2.0 coming soon
    - SETI gear is here! SETI@home store now open
    - Project sponsors

Dr. David P. Anderson
Project Director, SETI@home
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
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PROJECT STATUS

With your assistance, SETI@home has been amazingly successful.
1,500,000 people in 224 countries have downloaded the SETI@home screensaver
and together they have contributed 125,000 years of computer time,
with the common goal of finding the first sign of
intelligent extraterrestrial life.

We've been recording data at the Arecibo radio telescope since December 1998,
and most of the data through May 1999 has now been analyzed.
100 million signals have been detected and stored in our database.
The second-phase processing, which rejects man-made interference and
looks for "repeat" signals, will start soon.
This is when we hope to actually detect an ET signal!
Furthermore, thanks to the abundance of computing power,
we'll be augmenting SETI@home to look for new types of signals.

As the number of users has grown, we've had to upgrade our servers
several times to handle the load.
Sometimes it's been hard to connect (sorry!) but our
most recent upgrades have fixed this problem for now.
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VERSION 2.0 COMING SOON

Most people are running version 1.06 of our software.
Early next year we'll release version 2.0, which has many new features
and works better through firewalls and proxies.
For more details, see
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/version20.html

When version 2.0 is available for your type of computer,
you'll be notified automatically the next time your computer
completes a work unit.  When that happens, you'll need
to download the new version from our web site.
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SETI@HOME STORE NOW OPEN

SETI@home has teamed up with The Exploratorium,
the famous science museum in San Francisco,
to bring you products that let you proudly display
your participation in the SETI@home search.
Profits from these products go to the SETI@home project.
Four products are currently available (more are planned):

T-shirt: the colorful SETI@home logo is silkscreened on the front,
and the URL is on the back.  Available in S, M, L, and XL sizes.

Polo shirt: short-sleeve polo shirt with the SETI@home logo embroidered
on the left breast.  Available in S, M, L, XL, and XXL sizes

Cap: a smart looking soft black cap with
the SETI@home logo embroidered above the brim.

Mug: black ceramic, with the SETI@home logo fired on.

These products are available in the SETI@home on-line store which is
part of the Exploratorium's on-line shop.  To get there directly, go to
http://www.exploratoriumstore.com/setihome.html
The Exploratorium's award-winning website is at
http://www.exploratorium.edu
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THANKS TO SPONSORS

We want to express our deep appreciation to all of the sponsors of SETI@home:

SETI@home's Key Sponsors: The Planetary Society, Sun Microsystems,
and the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program.

SETI@home's Major Sponsors: Paramount Pictures,
Fuji Film Computer Products, IBM developerWorks, and Quantum.

Sponsors: Informix, The Santa Cruz Operation, Intel,
Space.com, EDT Inc, Crystal Group, and the SETI Institute.

Thanks also to the hundreds of individuals who have made
contributions to SETI@home.  Their names are listed at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/donorlist.html

SETI@home is free for everyone, but if you can consider
making a tax-deductible donation to SETI@home, please visit
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/donor.html
We also encourage you to consider joining The Planetary Society:
http://www.planetary.org

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