It is hard to believe there are people who want to delist SETI@home, which is the father of all BOINC. This was the project that BOINC was originally developed for. My own opinion is that the search for extraterrestrial life is an important endeavor, even if the probability of finding something is low. I see there are other opinions out there.

Quite frankly this is devolving into sort of a priesthood. It is almost a mob mentality on which projects should or shouldn't be part of the whitelist.

I think we need to go back to a simple standard where a project is whitelisted based on

1. Its ability to supply steady workunits

2. Process credits for submitted workunits ina timely manner

3. Remain up for computation/reporting of statistics for research payments.

4. Does not participate in ASIC-based mining of other cryptocurrencies.

We should vote on the standards for availability of workunits, credit granting latency, and uptime requirements for the project servers for statistics inquiries, and then implement an algorithm to make the decisions.