This message is from The Seti@home page.
They go on to say they're upgrading the server and expect improvements in a
month or so.
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To our users: SETI@home is off to a great start! We now have almost 350,000
users, many more than we expected. This has caused some temporary problems:

Our servers are overloaded. You have probably seen "can't connect to server"
messages; the problem is at our end, not yours.

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
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