There is a free Markdown-based collaborative editing website I use. Wonderful stuff. Free (did I mention that?). Signing up enrolls your user email into a drip

There is a free Markdown-based collaborative editing website I use. Wonderful stuff. Free (did I mention that?). Signing up enrolls your user email into a drip marketing thread, from "Joe", the founder. He asks "how's it going? can I help?" I reply with thanks and a couple of questions. No reply. A few days later, a canned follow-up email from "Joe", etc. As I try to figure out the service and sharing, I sign up with another email address. Bam, the same number of hours later, a "personal" query from "Joe", as above. Research suggests that "Joe" has abandoned this side project (his right, of course). I'd suggest though that "drip marketing" + abandoned site is an anti-pattern. I'd be happier with "Joe" and his free service if I'd never gotten the transactional email (especially the second or third in the sequence, when he's never replied.) The oddly good news: the lack of replies plus the Googling it instigated made me realize I was relying on an abandoned project, so of course I backed up my stuff.