[MR] Mailing List Lightbulb

[Beiskaldi at aol.com]

Intended as humor.  (IE, before anyone goes getting offended, please realize I see myself plenty here too.)

slan,
thyra/dawn


> How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
> 
> 1,343
> 
> 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light
> bulb has been changed
> 
> 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
> light bulb could have been changed differently
> 
> 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
> 
> 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
> bulbs 
> 
> 53 to flame the spell checkers
> 
> 41 to correct spelling/grammar flames
> 
> 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"
> 
> 6 more to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
> 
> 156 to write to the list administrator about the light bulb discussion
> and its inappropriateness to this mail list
> 
> 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take
> this email exchange to litebulb-l
> 
> 203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and
> illuminati-l about changing light bulbs be stopped
> 
> 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light
> bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list
> 
> 306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to
> buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this
> technique and what brands are faulty
> 
> 27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
> 
> 14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and the post the
> corrected URL's 
> 
> 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to
> this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list
> 
> 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ
> 
> 44 to ask what is a "FAQ"
> 
> 33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and
> footers and then add "Me too"
> 
> 19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"
> 
> 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot
> handle the light bulb controversy
> 
> 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on USENET?"
> 
> 143 to ask "what's Usenet?"