[plug] Is this us? (offtopic humour)

[Bevan Broun]

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From: "Paul Jeffreys" <pjeffrey at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
To: <tech-contacts at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: joke
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:22:55 +0800
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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.


__________________________________
Paul Jeffreys
Computer Manager / Network Administrator
Lions Eye Institute
Ph: (08) 9381 0799
Mobile: 0413 062170
pjeffrey at cyllene.uwa.edu.au


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