Text of email notifications from LiveJournal in 2003?

[elizabethmain]

Does anyone have (English) email notifications from LiveJournal (eg "soandso added you as a friend," "soandso left a comment") from 2003? Yahoo deleted my old email address so I can't access emails from that era.

I'm most interested in the text of friend and comment notifications, including the subject headline. I appreciate any help you can give.

Comments

[featherfire]

If no one can help you with notifications from quite that long ago, I can at least get you text from 2008. I have friend removal and reply to entry/reply to comment notifications (and LJ inbox notifications but I don't think LJ had an inbox in 2003 ^^;).

[shocolate]

LOL - apparently I can do you comment notifications from 2006...

[elizabethmain]

Thanks both of you, I'm looking for 2003 specifically though.

[bopeepsheep]

April 2005:

XXXX ([user]) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said:

> Heh.

Their reply was:

Stuff

Options:

- View the discussion:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/135865.html?thread=581561
- View all comments on the entry:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/135865.html
- Reply to the comment:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user[/135865.html?replyto=581561

-- LiveJournal.com

(If you'd prefer to not get these updates, go to
http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml and turn off the relevant options.)

I don't remember them being any different 18m earlier.

[elizabethmain]

Thank you!

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[thekumquat]

From 2003

[elizabethmain]

Thank you very much! What did the "so-and-so added you as a friend" emails look like?

[white_hart]

I don't think there were emails about people adding you as a friend. I remember someone created a tool that you could use to check who had added or removed you, so you didn't just have to read through your list of friends and try to work out what had changed, but I don't think the site did it.

[amw]

Yeah, I had a vague memory of a tool like that too, but I wasn't sure if I was confusing it with those early Facebook tools that did the same thing 😄 /old...

[amw]

You can find the old source code of the notifications here: https://github.com/apparentlymart/livejournal/tree/master/cgi-bin/LJ/Event... )

[elizabethmain]

Thank you, this is very helpful!