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Message 46844 - Posted: 18 Dec 2012, 13:12:34 UTC

I want to change my email address for all of my projects. I understand that this can foul up the CPID and lose me all of my credits.

Has this maybe by now been somehow overcome?

I have never ever understood the use of an email address as a user id. People change email providers the way they change their underwear. Why can we n ot have a simple user id/password system like almost all web sites?
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Message 46845 - Posted: 18 Dec 2012, 13:40:57 UTC - in response to Message 46844.  
Last modified: 18 Dec 2012, 13:42:47 UTC

Who says? If things are aligned now, just go ahead and change the email address for all the client attached projects at their respective accounts **. Long as the clients talk to the project servers few times a day, things will fall in place withing a few days [hit update in client on those reticent]. Projects that are not attached to clients and those that have gone dormant [retired], wont be coming along FAIK.

The email address is cyphered into the CPID to make yours absolutely one off, never a chance of having a duplicate code in a zillion years, at least as long as we're alive.

BOINC structure was never set up to have unique member names across projects [how would you control that, and then have the system roll them up?]

** Make the email addresses absolute same and lowercase [though I understand the system only uses lower case to identify matching addresses [most projects enforce except maybe WCG].
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