[Logician]

Originally posted by marc49
Is it possible to even have the ability to check existing members? I realize it would probably have to be a whole seperate hack, but would it be something that would be fairly easy for you guys to do?

Mark they look same, their algorithm is similiar either but if you want to do a good job, you have to restructure the hack to code your request. Here is a technical info:

In "who might this user be" hack, the hack retrieves the IP address (email and password too) of the new user and searches BOTH the message database and userdatabase to match the IPs (and ISPs). You have only one IP to check against other users IPs, so handling it is easier.

However if you want to check an existing member's IP inside the database, things changes because he might be a dynamic IP owner and an active poster which means he may have tens of different IPs recorded in your database. If you want to do a good analyze as this hack does, you have to take all these IPs one by one and search them inside your database. This can be time consuming if he has too many IPs or if your database is big or your MYSQL server is slow. Moreover this means you have to code this hack quite differently than this hack. So it's not really possible to make a quick adoptation, in the coder view, you have to handle things differently by coding it from the scratch.

I may try working on it sometimes but sorry not soon..