Wow, I guess I'm just lucky all I get are stupid chain letters or sentimental tales from my mom now, looking at what you put up with.
Fortunately, my family's never been passionate about politics (short of when ma mere went on a crusade to expand the school district beyond the town limits-- and won), but I think the idea to just politely call or write them back asking them to just not to add you to this list when they feel motivated to do so is a good one.
It won't work, but at least you'll have told them.
I KNOW! I AM SO SICK of these "error" messages! This thing's starting to turn into MySpace with it's problems. I think they're throwing too many things into it at once with this Jabber, sponsored accounts, and voice post features.
Yeah, and now their reply link in the email notifications doesn't work either...
I think you're exactly right about the cause of the problem. I've seen this happen time and again with other sites -- they start out being a fairly basic site that does one thing well (in LJ's case, blogging), and then they start trying to add a bunch of other functionality and end up getting bloated and slow and frequently breaking. Same thing happens with software too. *looks pointedly at Photoshop*
Accursed Photoshop! *strokes lovingly so as not to upset it*
I notice the emails only go wonky on Yahoo mail so far... Hotmail holds up well. I really want to know what they're trying to accomplish with it... Its YouToolate and MySpacedout to try and glut it out. Next thing you know they'll give us 50K icons... *wrings hands*
Seriously. They really need to bump the icons to 60 k. I could have a BLAST with that.
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Fortunately, my family's never been passionate about politics (short of when ma mere went on a crusade to expand the school district beyond the town limits-- and won), but I think the idea to just politely call or write them back asking them to just not to add you to this list when they feel motivated to do so is a good one.
It won't work, but at least you'll have told them.
*looks at email*
Aw, jeez, maaaa! *deletes*
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EDIT: What is up with these database errors? I'm having to try two and three times to post every comment.
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I think you're exactly right about the cause of the problem. I've seen this happen time and again with other sites -- they start out being a fairly basic site that does one thing well (in LJ's case, blogging), and then they start trying to add a bunch of other functionality and end up getting bloated and slow and frequently breaking. Same thing happens with software too. *looks pointedly at Photoshop*
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*strokes lovingly so as not to upset it*
I notice the emails only go wonky on Yahoo mail so far... Hotmail holds up well.
I really want to know what they're trying to accomplish with it...
Its YouToolate and MySpacedout to try and glut it out.
Next thing you know they'll give us 50K icons... *wrings hands*
Seriously. They really need to bump the icons to 60 k. I could have a BLAST with that.