[plug] Talking about off topic posts

[Rick (VK6EP)]

Saw this and thought that it was quite good..........

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Q: How many list subscribers does it take to change a spark plug?

A: 1,445:

-1 to change the spark plug and to post to the mail list that the spark plug
has been changed;

--14 to share similar experiences of changing spark plugs and how the spark
plug could have been changed differently;

--7 to caution about the dangers of changing spark plugs;

--27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing spark
plugs;

--53 to flame the spell checkers;

--41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;

--6 to argue over whether it?s ??sparkplug?? or ??spark plug??

--and another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;

--156 to write to the list administrator about the spark plug discussion and
its inappropriateness to this mail list;

--109 to post that this list is not about spark plugs and to please take
this email exchange to sparkplug-l;

--203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and sparkplug-l
about changing spark plugs be stopped;

--111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use spark plugs
and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;

--306 to debate which method of changing spark plugs is superior, where to
buy the best spark plugs, what brand of spark plugs work best for this
technique and what brands are faulty;

--41 to point out that not all of us use spark plugs, representing all
diesel owners;

--58 to question why diesel owners are on a non-diesel mailing list;

--3 to comment about conversions to electric;

--27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different spark plugs;

--14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and to post the corrected
URLs;

--3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this
list which makes spark plugs 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 spark plug controversy;

--19 to quote the ??Me too?s?? to say ??Me three??;

--4 to suggest that posters request the spark plug FAQ;

--44 to ask what is ??FAQ??;

--4 to say??didn?t we go through this already a short time ago dealing with
oil filters???

--143 to ask ??what?s an oil filter???





Cheers
Rick

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