From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 27 0:53:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D8114C3F; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:53:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA13984; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:23:26 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA53554; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:23:24 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990327192324.C53452@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:23:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: We're not that different References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from paul@originative.co.uk on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:24:15PM -0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] [moved to -chat] On Thursday, 25 March 1999 at 17:24:15 -0000, paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > This is probably asking for trouble since it's not even remotely FreeBSD > related (then again it sort of is, see points below). Some of you may have > seen it but a little light relief is a good thing at times :-) Well, that's what -chat's for. I'm forwarding it there, mainly so I can get the chance to reformat it and read it. So what category does that put me in? :-) Greg >>> Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a >>> light bulb? >>> >>> A: 1,343 >>> >>> 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/grammar flames; >>> >>> 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"; >>> >>> another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive; >>> >>> 156 to write to the list administrator 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 litebulb-l; >>> >>> 203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and >>> illuminati-l 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; >>> >>> 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 URL's where one can see examples of different light >>> bulbs; >>> >>> 14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post >>> the corrected URL's; >>> >>> 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant >>> to this list which makes light bulbs 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 light bulb controversy; >>> >>> 19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"; >>> >>> 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ; >>> >>> 44 to ask what is "FAQ"; >>> >>> 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on >>> Usenet?" >>> >>> 143 to ask "what's Usenet?" -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message