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Subject: From UGA humorlist Q: How many listmembers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 1,331: 1 to change the lightbulb and to post to the mailing list that the bulb has been changed. 14 to share similar experiences of changing lightbulbs, and to explain how it could have been done differently. 7 to talk about the dangers of changing light bulbs. 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors of posts about changing lightbulbs. 53 to flame the spellcheckers. 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion being "off-topic" and inappropriate. 41 to correct the spelling of the spelling/grammar flamers. 10 to post that this list is not about lightbulbs, and to please take this email exhange to a new alt.ligtbulb newsgroup. 203 to demand that cross-posting to alt.grammar, alt. punctuation, and alt.spelling be stopped. 111 to defend the posting to this list, saying that we all use lightbulbs, therefore the posts are revelant to this mailing list. 306 to debate which method of changing lightbulbs is superior, where to buy the best lightbulbs, what brand of lightbulbs work best for this technique; and what brands are faulty. 27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different lightbulbs. 14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected URLs. 3 to post about links they found on the URLs that are relevant to this list, which makes lightbulbs relevant to the list. 33 to put together 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 lightbulb controversy. 19 to quote the "Me Too"s to say "Me Three". 9 to suggest that posters request the lightbulb FAQs. 1 to propose changing to new alt.change.lightbulb newsgroup and mailing list. 47 to say that this is just what this alt.cold_fusion newsgroup and mailing list was meant for and leave it like it is. 143 votes for alt.lightbulb newsgroup and mailing list. ***