July 21, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I started and owned this site for 7 years before selling to Red Gate. We never bought or sold an address. As far as I know Red Gate has continue that as the emails are worth far more to them if they don't sell them.
I shall check and see, but my feeling is that you probably clicked a link from us to anothr site and entered the same email there. We've had people do the before.
July 22, 2009 at 2:09 am
We will obviously be confirming through the entire team, but as far as I'm aware, no-one has performed a dump of the email addresses in the system. In addition, selling the email addresses (or indeed any personal details that you provide us) would be in violation of the privacy policy.
John, if you can forward us a copy of the email that you received, I can see whether we can make some enquiries into why they had your email address, and what the source of that was.
Mel
Mel HarbourProject ManagerRed Gate Software
July 22, 2009 at 3:26 am
As stewards of SSC or under any other capacity we have never sold, rented or otherwise violated anyone's email address and we never will. For us this is a moral value we hold dear. As far as I know Andy, Steve and Brian had exactly the same position prior to us owning it.
In total we’re in possession of about more than a million email addresses a majority of which we never contact. We have quite a bit of internal wrangling about the circumstances in which we have the right to contact someone who has given us their email address. For example we won’t be contacting the SSC daily newsletter list with news of the new version of SQL Prompt in a week or two despite the fact that it would be worth a large short term financial gain to us. We won't because it would be wrong. It is the equivalent of cursing at your grandmother.
For SSC to thrive as a community valuable to its members you have to know we can be trusted. We can. Right now there are groups of people trying to work out what actually happened and the SSC privacy policy (which we look at about once a decade and looks hideously vague in the cold light of day) is being rewritten. We’ll update this post and Steve will probably include a mention in an editorial once we've got to the bottom of this.
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July 22, 2009 at 7:48 am
You're absolutely right about the link in a previous newsletter. It was an article link in the 6/18 newsletter pointing to SearchSQLServer aka TechTarget, I thought it was the same/related site as SQLServerCentral. Phished me good.
I'll go back there and try to delete/change/remove the registraton.
Thank you to everyone for the assistance during this thread topic.
John
July 22, 2009 at 8:05 am
John, Thanks for the update.
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