In a message dated 7/21/2007 11:12:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >How many group members does it take To change a lightbulb? There are at least three other categories of posters. (1) Five group members will discuss the entire history of the lightbulb industry and how they helped Thomas Edison in his laboratory. (2) Two members will digress radically from the original question but not change the Subject. E.g., perhaps one post incidentally mentions tungsten as a filament in lightbulbs. Then dozens more group members will discuss tungsten in great detail. Group members who don't care about changing lightbulbs and have been ignoring all emails in that thread yet care deeply about tungsten will miss all the tungsten-related posts because of the misleading Subject. (3) Four group members will ask that the lightbulb thread be killed. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL
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