How Many Internet Email List Subscribers
Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?

1,343 - 1 to change the light bulb and 1,342 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.

41 to correct spelling/grammar flames.

6 to argue over whether itīs "lightbulb" or "light bulb."

6 to condemn those 6 who are arguing as anal-retentive.

156 to write to the list administrator about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list.

109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to litebulb-l.

203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and illuminati-l 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 URLīs where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

14 to post that the URLīs were posted incorrectly and the post the corrected URLīs.

3 to post about links they found from the URLīs that are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list.

33 to link 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.

19 to quote the "Me tooīs" to say "Me three".

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.

44 to ask what is "FAQ".

4 to say "didnīt we go through this already a short time ago on Usenet?"

143 to ask "whatīs Usenet?".