Ah, an oldie but a goodie. H.
-----Original Message----- From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:35 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Mailing list humor Question: How many E Mail List Subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: 1,001 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. 53 to flame the spell checkers 106 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list. 41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames. 99 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to private email 113 to demand that cross posting to other mail lists about changing light bulbs be stopped. 101 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts **are** relevant to this mail list. 156 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. 33 to concatenate 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 Too's" to say, "Me Three." 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ. 1 to propose a new "Lite Bulb Changing" Mail List. 47 to say this is just what the Mail List was meant for 123 votes for the new Mail List. ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
