"Tell a friend" issues...

Hi -
I had problems with the "Tell a friend" functionality yesterday. Don't know if this was just me or is more system wide.
Here's what happened.
I entered a bunch of email addresses, all correctly configured and separated by commas.
When I hit ENTER the system returned a vauge "the system is not responding" error. So I tried again and again, assuming it was either too "busy" and couldn't make a connection.
However....it apparently WAS working and was sending out the same email a ton of time; essentially I was spamming my friends!
Just an FYI....
Ron

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