[How to contact me]
If you are contacting me for a technical question, please consider posting in the newsgroups. You will receive an answer faster. I usually have a backlog of dozens of mails so you may receive an answer after days or weeks.
If you are concerned about privacy for communication here are my
old 2.6.3i PGP key
and my new 5.0i PGP key
To contact me for anything, e-mail to: ghotz@alphasys.it
messengers
I'm almost always online, so you can reach me through various messengers, however I will answer only if I'm not busy.
- MSN Messenger: gianluca_hotz@hotmail.com
- ICQ: 5914951
- Yahoo: ghotz
Please note that Yahoo pager is no more the preferred way to reach me. Try MSN messenger or ICQ instead.
newsgroups
These are some of the newsgroups on msnews.microsoft.com The microsoft.public.sqlserver.* hierarchy has more groups, but these are the one I read more often. (Please note that the first group is in Italian language)
- microsoft.public.it.sql
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.clients
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.connect
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.datawarehouse
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.dts
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.odbc
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.server
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.setup
- microsoft.public.sqlserver.tools
These are some of the newsgroups on news.ugiss.org
The ugiss.* hierarchy is in Italian language and you need to apply to the
Italian User Group for SQL Server