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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: your mail
From: wayne@campnet.nb.ca (Wayne Alexander)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:47:06 -0300 (ADT)
And 7 from the Cliff Claven types that respond to everything.
This list should be posted on all reflectors.

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 wa2moe@doitnow.com wrote:

> From: "Mike Parisey" <mparisey@intertex.net> (by way of wa2moe@doitnow.com)
> Subject: [BitBucket] [DX] Couldn't help myself.....
> X-Sponsor: K7ON Brian Short k7on@qsl.net
> Sender: owner-bitbucket@qsl.net
> Reply-To: "Mike Parisey" <mparisey@intertex.net> (by way of 
> wa2moe@doitnow.com)
> X-Sponsor: Al Waller K3TKJ QSL.Net
> 
> 
> Q:  How many internet mail list subscribers does it take
>     to change a light bulb?
> 
> A:  1,331:
>         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
>       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 alt.lite.bulb.
>                               Stu Greene WA2MOE 
>                             7537 North 28th Avenue
>                           Phoenix, Arizona 85051  USA
> 
>                               wa2moe@doitnow.com                           
> 
> 
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