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I wonder why they don't collect email addresses for people using their service. It would open all sorts of opportunities for marketing, soliciting donations, a
by metafunctor 10y ago
I wonder why they don't collect email addresses for people using their service. It would open all sorts of opportunities for marketing, soliciting donations, and also service announcements. I mean, I heard about this campaign on Hacker News, not directly from Let's Encrypt.
Also, I'd probably sign up for a small recurring donation if it was possible. Recurring donations could become a significant and reliable source of funding.
Edit: I am not suggesting they start spamming everyone and ask for money. An opt-in email list for topics not strictly related to service would be good.
- dawnerd 10y agoI wouldn't ant another service begging me for money every month. I'd rather them just figure out a long term solution. I'd happily pay for it, I just hate marketing emails.
- catdog 10y agoLuckily they have better things to do than sending SPAM.
- no_protocol 10y agoThey do have my email address, but I'm glad they did not (yet) use it to ask for money. If you provide an email address to Let’s Encrypt when you create your account, we’ll automatically send you expiry notices when your certificate is coming up for renewal. We send the first notice at 20 days before your certificate expires, and more notices at 10 days and 1 day before it expires.
- jaas 10y agoWe have a lot of email addresses provided for certificate accounts but we'd prefer to use them only when necessary, because that's what people had in mind when they gave them to us. When we collect email addresses via marketing efforts we may use them for future marketing efforts (with the appropriate opt-out options, of course).
- metafunctor 10y agoOf course. Is there a (low volume) mailing list somewhere I can sign up to get announcements for things like this? P.S. Let's Encrypt rocks! I just donated.