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From: Greg Boe <>
Subject: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L] Re: GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-D Digest V98 #53
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:19:01 -0500


Dear Barbara;

Please do not post jokes. I am sure there are plenty of 'jokes' to be
found on the internet. I do not beleive that is what this list is for.

Debbie At 11:17 PM 8/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-D DigestVolume 98 : Issue 53
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>Today's Topics:
> #1 [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L] changin [Barbara Gingerich Rivas
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>Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:22:13 -0500
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>Subject: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L] changing light bulbs
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>>From the Roots list:
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>X-Message: #18
>Date: Fri, 28 Aug 98 21:22:10 -0600
>From: Carma Brown <>
>posted on another list by Chris Stewart,
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>Discussion group subscribers...
>
>| >Q: How many internet mail list discussion group subscribers does it
>take
>| >to change a light bulb?
>
>| >A: 1,331:
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>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
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>| >156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light
>bulb
>| >discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list.
>
>| >41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames.
>
>| >109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please
>take
>| >this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb
>
>| >203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and
>| >alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped.
>
>| >111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we are 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 URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs
>
>| >14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post
>corrected
>| >URLs.
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>| >3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to
>this
>| >list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list.
>
>| >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 controversy.
>
>| >19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three."
>
>| >4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
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>| >1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup.
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>| >47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for,
>leave
>| >it here.
>
>| >143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.
>
>Barbara Rivas
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