# Why is IA sending me one email every hour?

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**Tags:** certifcations\
**Created:** [February 16, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994 "2026-02-16T21:17:42Z")\
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Nah, I'm getting them too. I opened a support ticket, because replies to sales bounce. Due to the holiday in the U.S.

FWIW, I'm **still** a heretic:

> [@Certification change: feedback](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/certification-change-feedback/66282/13):
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> I have near-zero faith in the certifications. I'm not a fan of certifications in general. It isn't just an IA issue. They arose as a wider proxy for the excellence that used to be recognized in a person's or organization's public reputation. They have metastasized into a replacement for reputation, enforced by financial incentives and requiring financial sacrifices, instead of being the start towards one's reputation. In today's litigious world, in part due to the financial aspects, there i…

(I had an employee for a few years that went through the core cert--that is what expired recently.)

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