From: kx.henderson@q... (Kelvin)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:27:35 +1000
Subject: [OT] Mailing Lists and Lightbulbs.....
One of the guys here at work found the following while surfing the web on lunch. I thought it was as funny as all heck. (My apologies if it has be posted before.) Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? A: 678: 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. 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list. 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. 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.