The right answer is 1697 !!!!!!!!! 5 demands that the lightbulb must be put in the brackets, so they may have put lightbulb in filter. Dex From: "Thomas Touzimsky" <thomas@klf.de> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:25:31 +0100 To: "KLF Mailing List" <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [KLF] [OT] Lightbulbs Message-Id: <000901c2dcc8$fd975b00$ac95fea9@THOMAS> Re: Q. How many mailing list members do you need to change a lightbulb ? Re: A. 1692 (!) Re: Re: 1 who changes the lightbulb and sends a mail to the list telling them that Re: it has been changed. Re: 14 who made similar experiences and reply how to change the bulb much Re: better. Re: 7 pointing out the risks of changing lightbulbs. Re: 27 pointing out grammar and spelling mistakes made in the previous lightbulb Re: mails. Re: 53 flaming the previous 27. Re: 156 writing a mail to the list admin, complaining about the lightbulb mails Re: that should be banned from the list. Re: 41 correcting the 53 flamers. Re: 109 writing to the list that it is not a lightbulb list, and further Re: discussion should be made in alt.lite.bulb Re: 203 asking for to stop crosspostings to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and Re: alt.punktation Re: 111 defending the mail, pointing out that everyone uses lightbulbs what Re: makes them on-topic again Re: 306 debating about which changing method is the best, where to find the best Re: lightbulbs, what kind of lightbulbs are the best and which brands are crap. Re: 27 posting URLs for pages where to find images of lightbulbs. Re: 14 replying that those URLs are wrong, sending the right ones in exchange. Re: 3 mailing links they found following those URLs that are relevant for the Re: list, proving that lightbulbs are important for the list as well. Re: 33 gathering all mails in one post, quote them completely (including header Re: and footer) only to add "Me too" at the bottom. Re: 12 announcing they will quit the list because they can't stand this Re: lightbulb discussion anymore. Re: 19 quoting the "Me too"s, adding "Me three". Re: 4 suggesting the posters should read the lightbulb faq. Re: 1 suggesting to create the newsgroup alt.change.light.bulb Re: 47 pointing out that alt.physic.cold_fusion is the right newsgroup for this Re: topic Re: 143 posting that creating that newsgroup is a good idea. Re: 27 sending "unsubscribe" to the list, not understanding that they should Re: send their mail to the list server rather than the whole list. Re: 42 mailing useless pictures of all kinds of bulbs to the list. Re: 78 complaining about that. Re: 1 having problems reading all the picture mails because of his lousy modem / Re: harddisc / computer. Re: 1 suggesting a live irc chat in #bulbs, giving up after one week of waiting Re: for response. Re: 5 suggesting an own mailing list for the never ending "lightbulb" topic. Re: 35 giving their ok (on list of course). Re: 126 being against it, letting everyone on the list know about that. Re: Re: And 1 mailing that in his humble opinion the lightbulb had not to be changed Re: at all... Re: Re: Re: --- Re: Thomas Touzimsky Re: Re: "Some millennia, you should better stay in bed." My name is Dex and they call me Sky Riding the waves with out heads held high We came from Atlantis on a burning shell with our 808 program to sell. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup