I'm glad the UK is leaving.

Ah, well - each to their own. Enjoy the ride.

We'd better stop here, or Jord will get cross.

If one were to read the actual words on Seti's front page, they say that they're not sending emails.
But that's in a news item, in plain sight, that says they have started a fund raising drive.
So, if you want to send them a few million shekels, you can.
Except for the bureaucrats who check up on people shipping large amounts of grain. :)

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I wonder if anyone has actually read all of the GDPR documents?
And are they out of rehab yet?

We'd better stop here, or Jord will get cross.

I don't care. Each to their own, as long as you stay civil and not have a civil war about it on the forums.

edit: it was painful to watch however that it needed several people to point out where the newsletter part of BOINC was. How long have y'all been here?

Actually, I still haven't found it. There is no "newsletter" option. "Is it OK for [project] and your team (if any) to email you?" isn't really the same thing.

Depends. How do you want a project to bring you their newsletter? That's usually done via email, or at least way back when BOINC was set up, that was the means to go by. Before Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, Telegram, WeChat, TikTok, QZone, Tumblr, Yelp, Youtube, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Skype, Pinterest, Weibo, Snapchat, VK, Taringa, RenRen, Badoo, Myspace, Tagged, and well all the others I missed took on the option to reach you. Phew.

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Don't people hang around in bars anymore?

Yes, that's where they get the free wifi to connect to all of the anti-social sites. :)

I think that "newsletter" and "Notices" is probably the same thing.
It's just whatever the custom is in the country the project is in.

But Notices is "The Thing" for BOINC. Except for perhaps WCG, who apparently have their own ideas about how BOINC should be.

You could create a list of urls for all the projects that you're with, pointing to the page where the selection options are, (I've forgotten what it's called already), and click through the list once every few days to see if any of the projects have added a new research type.

Notices is something else, and cannot be opted out of (as far as I know). Whenever a project writes to their News forum this news gets automatically sent out to BOINC clients out there (with scheduler updates) which show it in the Notices tab in BOINC Manager. The project does need to have the News forum option enabled for this to work.

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And for the record, SETI did not have to stop sending emails to those in the EU.
They just had to go to an opt in system.

You're assuming anyone actually understands GDPR....

I read through the relevant bits for our allotment society. It wasn't particularly difficult to understand, just tedious. I certainly wasn't going to read through all 300+pages of it though one of our members did as she had to know rather more about it for her work!

I think they made it that tedious on purpose so people would miss bits and get caught out.

@Peter, sorry, I've been off the forums for a few days.
It was indeed notification area I was referring to.
They are visible from the Windows, Linux, and Android and ARM client.
The notification area does more than just notifying, some projects use it to send newsupdates/letters, and notify about downtimes.