Shutting down a service is understandable. Giving users several months' notice ahead of shutting down is nice. Telling users, "hey, fyi, this service will hav

Shutting down a service is understandable. Giving users several months' notice ahead of shutting down is nice. Telling users, "hey, fyi, this service will have stopped by the time you read this email" is a lousy way to do things, but it's the bare minimum. Shutting down a service without telling anyone that the service is shutting down (unless someone specifically asks about it) is the kind of thing a fly-by-night startup does right around the time they let their domain expire.