The ongoing MySQL campaign

Posted Dec 31, 2009 23:32 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475)
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign

What I want to know is how Monty got my email address to ask me to sign the petition at
helpmysql.org. I don't want to make any accusations, but the only place I can think of is from
registering at mysql.com and I wonder why he would still have access to the list of accounts from
there, presuming it was transferred to Sun.

There might be some other obvious source I'm not thinking of, but it was quite surprising when I
had an email from him turn up in my inbox today.

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The ongoing MySQL campaign

Posted Jan 1, 2010 22:48 UTC (Fri) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (2 responses)

Hi

I work with Monty, although I've been on vacation for these past days so wasn't involved.

If you got email from Monty personally, then most likely you have had some email discussion with him in the past why he would have your email. (Such as, on MySQL mailing lists.) We are of course still quite close with many of our friends and former collagues still at Sun, but no, we wouldn't have access to the MySQL.com email database.

The ongoing MySQL campaign

Posted Jan 3, 2010 3:36 UTC (Sun) by toddj1 (guest, #42952) [Link] (1 responses)

This is simply not true. I received two copies of the 'helpmysql' email, and I've never had any
personal email correspondence with anyone at MySQL, let alone Monty.

The ongoing MySQL campaign

Posted Jan 3, 2010 20:45 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

If you let me know the email address that was used, I can investigate when I return to work tomorrow. (My work email is hingo@askmonty.org)

As far as I know, there is no email database as such, people are just forwarding the email to their friends and contacts. If you got it from Monty, then somehow he has your address.