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- From: "Welsh, Jay (GEAE)" <jay.welsh@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:41:06 -0400
A certain perverse relevance.....
> Q: How many list subscribers does it take to change a spark plug?
>
> A: 1,445:
>
> --1 to change the spark plug and to post to the mail list that the spark
> plug has been changed;
> --14 to share similar experiences of changing spark plugs and how
> the spark plug could have been changed differently;
> --7 to caution about the dangers of changing spark plugs;
> --27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing
> spark plugs;
> --53 to flame the spell checkers;
> --41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;
> --6 to argue over whether it's "sparkplug" or "spark plug" and
> another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;
> --156 to write to the list administrator about the spark plug
> discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list;
> --109 to post that this list is not about spark plugs and to
> please take this email exchange to sparkplug-l;
> --203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and
> sparkplug-l about changing spark plugs be stopped;
> --111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use spark
> plugs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;
> --306 to debate which method of changing spark plugs is superior,
> where to buy the best spark plugs, what brand of spark plugs work
> best for this technique and what brands are faulty;
> --41 to point out that not all of us use spark plugs, representing all
> diesel owners;
> --58 to question why diesel owners are on a non-diesel mailing list;
> --3 to comment about conversions to electric;
> --27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different spark plugs;
> --14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and to post the
> corrected URLs;
> --3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to
> this list which makes spark plugs 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 spark plug controversy;
> --19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three";
> --4 to suggest that posters request the spark plug FAQ;
> --44 to ask what is "FAQ";
> --4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago
> dealing with oil filters?"
> --143 to ask "what's an oil filter?"
>
>
>
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