Hidden MSG in Steam Announcement?

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#1  Edited By skywing

I'm trying to figure it out.  Anyone think there is any merit to it even being a coded msg? 
Here's the link  
 Here's the Text in question, look at the underlined letters:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

Here are the letters: DRATTMANNH0NEE 
Keep in mind that the 0 is a Zero
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I think it has already been confirmed that it is a login for a BBS site.

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#3  Edited By Jadeskye

someone will figure it out in a couple hours probably :p

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#4  Edited By fripplebubby

Its a password combination for a weird thing that when completed gives you the front and back covers to portal 2

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#5  Edited By Insectecutor

Yes, ages ago. Cracked, logged in with, puzzle solved.
 
It's a new login for the BBS: user drattmann, pass h0nee. Apparently D. Rattmann was another test subject responsible for scrawling on the walls (his fondness for honey was mentioned somewhere). He has a login to the BBS because the test subjects were employees of Aperture. The login led to us getting some binary files. We used a qbasic program spat out by the older bbs login (backup/backup) to read the files, which turned out to be pictures. Those pictures pretty much said "HEY CONGRATS, WAIT FOR ANNOUNCEMENT". So yeah:
 

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#6  Edited By Akeldama

thank god im not allergic. 

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#7  Edited By Chuggsy

Portal 2 has the best ARG since I love bees.

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#9  Edited By Insectecutor
@SJSchmidt93 said:

" http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/cgi-bin/nph-an?line=DRATTMANNHN0EE+&words=4&dict=nonames&doai=on     "

Thanks man, but it's solved. It was not an anagram.
 
@Chuggsy said:
" Portal 2 has the best ARG since I love bees. "

A lot of people are moaning that it wasn't deep enough in the IRC and the various steam forums, they're complaining that there wasn't enough real life crap like emailing you or ringing your cellphone. They want more, I don't know if there'll be any more. Portal 2 isn't as big as Halo.
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#10  Edited By BlaineBlaine

 I'm just posting here because it seems like these threads got locked when the spam was removed. Hoping this will help. Sorry for any disturbance.