10:56am July 13, 2014

Oh man. This is seriously one of those “how old are you” things.

amorpha-system:

(especially the alt.noun.verb.verb.verb thing. anyone else actually remember that?)

How many mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: 1,331

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

41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames

156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list

109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please
take this email exchange to another list

203 to demand that cross posting to other lists about changing light
bulbs be stopped

111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light
bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list

3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to
this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this 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

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 controversey

19 to quote the “Me Too’s” to say, “Me Three.”

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ

48 to propose new change.lite.bulb newsgroup

47 to say there is already an alt.light.bulb newsgroup

143 to ask if anyone ever did change the lightbulb

(and a few added by a friend)

16 requests for alt.lightbulb.change
25 requests for moderated soc.lightbulb
12 who will point out that sci.lightbulb already exists
1 silly twit who will create a bogus newsgroup called alt.litebulb.
change.change.change
860 who say “who cares about that, we don’t need lights on to (thing that newsgroup/mailing list is about)!”

I remember this.