Daily Global5000

    		         RT(days)  #			Points 	     #		     Results	     #		
1	GrumpyCat   	 35.0	  787	crooks_uk   	137,384	    717	crooks_uk   	 209	    590		
2	themoonscres	 34.5	  797	GrumpyCat   	135,820	    727	GrumpyCat   	 139	    941		
3	Thargor     	 26.1	1,132	themoonscres	122,414	    823	arkangath   	 131	  1,009		
4	crooks_uk   	 23.5	1,266	Soong       	106,415	    979	RTS48       	 119	  1,134		
5	RTS48       	 21.7	1,384	Maugan      	 95,003	  1,131	Maugan      	 111	  1,225		
6	Mike D Green	 21.6	1,388	RTS48       	 82,778	  1,362	Soong       	  87	  1,668		
7	Soong       	 19.5	1,574	Mike D Green	 81,590	  1,385	themoonscres	  86	  1,693		
8	stroudwaterb	 14.1	2,311	Thargor     	 67,480	  1,759	Mike D Green	  79	  1,892		
9	arkangath   	 13.5	2,456	arkangath   	 65,091	  1,843	Scribe      	  77	  1,954		
10	Scribe      	 12.7	2,646	Scribe      	 52,137	  2,425	djerram     	  66	  2,408		
11	Maugan      	 12.5	2,695	stroudwaterb	 49,920	  2,581	stroudwaterb	  55	  3,096		
12	Ian_UK      	 10.4	3,362	djerram     	 43,235	  3,164	Thargor     	  52	  3,339		
13	djerram     	  8.4	4,417	gilesk      	 39,976	  3,486	gilesk      	  50	  3,487		
14	jonnieb-uk  	  7.7	4,864	Barnsley_Tat	 36,766	  3,937	Barnsley_Tat	  43	  4,255						
										

The Daily Global5000 accounted for 77.4% of yesterdays RunTime of 846.5 years

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in the lunchtime update:

Wicksman 14 years RunTime
GrumpyCat moves above 12,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #11,975
tuseef 800,000 Points
tuseef 1,000 Results

UK team midday crunch:

					                    	Hours			
RunTime			        168.1	  		        4,034			
7day Avg			165.0			        3,942			
March     			169.6	  		        4,069			
February			167.1			        4,024			
								

 No. Of Members Active This Morning:									
					Total	        50	out of 	106	
					Group 1    	25	,,  ,,	 27	
					Group 2    	12	,,  ,,	 17	
					Group 3    	 7	,,  ,,	 20	
					Group 4    	 2	,,  ,,	 12	
					InAct New	 1	,,  ,,	  5	
					InActive	 0	,,  ,,	 19	
					Group 7    	 3	,,  ,,	  6	

........I totally agree with you, a total waste of time!

@ Falconet & Scribe
I suspect the sendout of weekly/monthly News digests are staggered across 7 days possibly according to when Communications Preferences were first implemented.

I have subsqeuently posted a follow-on:
Known Issues thread retired ??

News items can be subscribed to if you have an RSS feed reader. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for both e-mail and RSS feeds and it works great. I got notification of the maintenance timed at 26/02/2014 14:09.

Having said that, I do think it is very wrong to rely on volunteers using RSS feed readers. The BOINC feature for notices was introduced later than 6.10.58 which is still (I believe) the WCG approved release level, so the assumption should be that that can't be used either (I'm still using 6.10.58 simply because of the WCG approval). That just leaves e-mail, and the delay is unacceptably long for notices of that sort.

Mmmm. Should the techs re-think, at least until the preferred BOINC version changes?