House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash

The Hill - by Jordy Yager - Sep. 30, 2008 (Opinion)
The error message in its entirety reads:

"The House of Representatives is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high amount of e-mail traffic. The Write Your Representative function is therefore intermittently available. While we realize communicating to your Members of Congress is critical, we suggest attempting to do so at a later time, when demand is not so high. System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we appreciate your ... More »