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**Saxon Holt s*@saxonholt.com**

Saw this on another listserv, and had a good laugh so I thought I'd
pass it on - as we seem to need a bit of levity ourselves . . . .

Saxon Holt

Q: How many mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light
bulb?

A: 1332

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

28 to point out spelling and/or grammar errors in posts about changing
light bulbs

53 to flame the spell-checkers

156 to write to their ISPs complaining about the light bulb discussion
and its inappropriateness to this mailing list

41 to correct spelling in the spelling and/or grammar flames

109 to post that this mailing list is not about light bulbs and to
please take this e-mail exchange to some other more appropriate
mailing
list

203 to demand that cross-posting to other mailing lists about changing
light bulbs be stopped

111 to defend the posting to this mailing list saying that we all use
light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mailing
list

306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where
to buy the best light bulbs, what type of light bulbs work best for
this technique, and what kinds 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 mailing list, which makes light bulbs relevant to this list

33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them all, 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" posts to say "Me Three"

4 to suggest that posters request the FAQ for this mailing list

1 to propose forming a new mailing list about changing light bulbs

47 to say this is just what this mailing list was meant for, leave it
here

143 votes for a new mailing list

plus 2 to advise that the above breakdown does not equal the answer of
1332 quoted above -- and to add apologetically that they could not
resist checking

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