Comedy 4

HOW MANY E-MAIL LIST SUBSCRIBERS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?

Answer: 1,118     1       to change the light bulb and to post to the 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 post to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb              discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list.     41     to correct spelling in the the spelling/grammar flames.     109   to post that this list if 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 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 summarize 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 controversy.     1       from the list admin notifying that the list is looking for a bigger server to handle the load.

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