That is certainly true, I guess I needed to specifically call out that he actually does reply. And this has been a constant recurring “rediscovery” every few years that GabeN personally responds to that email.

That also wasn’t the particular point I was even talking about. The point was that a previous dev would most likely still have connections inside Valve given how easy it is for outsiders. And that even if they had zero connections, again, it would be super easy to get a response.

This is all just speculation, but a relatively confident one.