<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nvr219</author><text>I got the email.  Here is the full text:&lt;p&gt;This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply.&lt;p&gt;Dear customer,&lt;p&gt;As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.&lt;p&gt;The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in StartcomÂ´s website.&lt;p&gt;StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.&lt;p&gt;StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.&lt;p&gt;StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you donÂ´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at certmaster@startcomca.com&lt;p&gt;Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.&lt;p&gt;Best regards,&lt;p&gt;StartCom Certification Authority</text><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.&lt;p&gt;I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>Probably just a roundabout way to say that they&amp;#x27;re selling their customer data and you have to contact them to opt out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.&lt;p&gt;I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story>