>>>Do we even know who was the source of this email?
I do :)
May the source email have four flats continuously on his corvette.
But, the original research was done by freepers here at FR. If the lurkers of the thread would like to step up, great, if not, I know what excellent work they do. And their time will come.
Bump lurkers :)
I lurk a bit but I don't lurk-a-lot!
I'll tell you the little that I do know for certain. I was personally exchanging private FReepmails with one particular FReeper who had devoted a considerable amount to time to exactly this research. I attempted to assist as much as possible but did not have the same level of expertise...and suddenly, one day this FReeper contacted me very very upset, telling me that right in the middle of the project, someone had used the information gathered and used it, made it public, before the research was completed.
Serves him right now, who-ever the thief is. What he has is not only the work of someone else, but it's not complete and full of loose ends.
The work continues, and HE looks like an idiot. (IMO.)