Chris,
some time has passed and the adrenaline levels have been decreased I beleive at least a little bit. For me it's quite shocking that someone uses such manners in the name of Discovery Gaming Community. If I knew who it was I would ban him from both the community and the game server instantly and permanently. It's absolutely incredible, and I fully understand your concerns.
May I ask you for the IP address of the DiscoveryRulez member? He posted once on these forums so you should have it in your logs. You mentioned the "discoverydiscovery##@hormail.com" address in the other thread. I searched Discovery forum registration e-mails for both "discoverydiscovery@hormail.com" and "discoverydiscovery##@hormail.com" but no match. I googled it, nothing. I tried e-mailing at that address, this result (same for the one with ##):
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
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Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
discoverydiscovery@hotmail.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable (state 14).
It still doesn't mean anything, the mail could have been just faked or the mailbox was deleted.
I have physical access to the game server and also all the routers in front of that server. Because I operate the network the server is hosted in, I also have access to all IP headers logs for the past few years. I also have access to both forum and if I had the IP address (or at least the range) I could easily try to find a match among milions of lines of various log files. It very likely that this person did a mistake somewhere in the process. I really doubt that this person used a fresh-bought mobile phone for hacking your site, posting on your forums and then threw the mobile phone into the river. But then again, one could beleive almost anything these days...
It really saddens me that something like that is connected to Discovery Gaming Community and I'll do all I can to investigate this matter. Help me prove our innocence or at least help me punnish that sick person if he really is a member of Discovery. My effort could also result in an attempt to hack our game server or forums by this person, but hell, I am willing to take these risks.
Thanks for your help,
Michal Petrzelka
operator of the official Discovery RP server
