Friends-list pruning

Hi. I’m about to prune my lj Friends list. If I take you off, it’s not because I don’t love you any more or don’t want you to read my protected entries, it’s just that I’ve had to mess with my friends groups lately (creating new groups and changing old ones), and the more people I have on my Friends list, the more tedious that is. (Actually, if anybody knows of Unix or OSX software that makes managing custom friends groups easier, I’d be interested in hearing about it. What I’d like is a grid with all my Friends down one side, and all my custom friends groups along the top, filled with checkboxes, so I could compare at a glance who was in what group and compare the memberships of different groups. Extra points if it let me change the ordering of the custom friends groups, so I could put two columns I wanted to be similar-but-not-identical next to each other.)

Anyway, the reason I’m posting this is (1) to let you know that it’s not personal if I take you off the list; it’s just about convenience, and (2) so that if I take you off, but you actually would like to be able to read my protected posts, you can let me know so I can add you back on. (I’m guessing most of the people I’m going to take off don’t read me anyway, but I thought I’d mention it just in case.)

[Edit: I’ve just done that pruning, so if you can still read this locked entry you are in no imminent danger of not being able to read my seekrit stuff.]

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