At 04:08 PM 8/30/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Fellows, etc., > >Sorry, I couldn't resist (and didn't we decide that humor, on occasion was >appropriate here?). > >This was posted on another Internet mail list where I am subscriber. The >poster there forwarded it from yet another list, so who knows where it >started. > >Betty > >********************* > >How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? >A: 1,331: > >1 to successfully 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 >156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb >discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list. >41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames. >109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this >email exchange to alt.lite.bulb >203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and >alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped. >111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we are 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 URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs >14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected >URLs. >3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this >list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list. >33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers >and footers, and then add "Me Too." >12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot >handle the light bulb controversey. >19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three." >4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ. >1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup. >47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it >here. >143 votes for a new list alt.lite.bulb. > Elizabeth, Agh! All too true, though I wonder how many of our troops still use usenet? Ron Stoloff If the gods had intended Man to fly, they wouldn't have given us railroads. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> { Check out these web sites: } { } { New! } { Edison/Fareira's New Oral History Web site: } { http://members.xoom.com/b_stoloff/oral } ( [NO WWW] } { } { In the Library of Congress, see: } { Immigration/Migration - under construction! } { http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/1998/lessonplans/98lpmain.html } { For the Edison Cluster, see: } { http://edisoncluster.phillynews.com - } { I'm responsible for the Population page! } { Need a place to get help with your computer? } { See this Computer Club Web Site: } { http://www.pacsnet.org/index.shtml } <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>