Nick Shaffner iirc. It is very odd that Nick rewrote VAC and added in new cheat detections as and when they were mailed to him and it was really working for a good few months. Then all of a sudden it all just stopped, no warning, no word, no explanation nothing. I don't think there has been a post by Nick to the mailing lists since July. I wondered why the logging of bans stopped in server consoles too hmm.
VAC gets raised on this list at least once a fortnight but it never gets touched by anyone at Valve in way of a reply. I am actually surprised that Alfred even replied to anything involving the VAC module as the conspiracy theorist in me thinks there could have been a good business reason for not wanting to dole out 5 year bans from VAC enabled servers to their customers. Whatever the case there will be a good reason for not keeping VAC up to date. Of course the validity of the 'good' behind the reason is only known to the Valve employees/owners privy to the info. It is pretty obvious that we are not going to be told why its not being updated, but I would be shocked if Eric/Nick/Alfred replied with a "we just sort of couldn't be arsed" and that was the reason. Just accept that it probably won't be updated again anytime soon, but when/if it ever is, this list will be the place you will find out about it. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Franke Sent: 08 December 2004 10:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] RE: CS:S cheats -- Eric (Deacon) - Tue, Dec 07 2004 19:20:52 -0600: > Doesn't Alfred still live in New Zealand and deal almost exclusively > with server stuff? I think it's highly possible that he gets quite a > few emails like this, and it's also highly possible that he may honestly > have no info on VAC. It's also highly possible that, assuming he knows > who'd be "The Man" to talk to in regards to VAC, that person does not > want or need lots of individuals constantly distracting him with useless > "MAKE VAC NOW OR DIE" emails. Strange, I remember that during the last period of concern towards VAC admins were called up to mail cheat sites on the WWW etc. to a special account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could this be our hero? Regards Christoph -- | GnuPG Public Key: http://www.thefranke.net/public.asc | | The BOFH Archive at: http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html | | Registered Linux User: 250439 - http://counter.li.org | -- Content-Description: Digital signature [ signature.asc of type application/pgp-signature deleted ] -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
