MFS Outage 6:30PM PDT 4/18/97

Paul R.D. Lantinga planting at vfi.com
Sun Apr 20 04:19:36 UTC 1997


> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Jamie Rishaw wrote:
> 
> > Uhm, since when is this outages at merit.edu?
> 
While many on this list have almost assuredly seen the posting below, it
demonstrates well that NANOG is not much different in nature than most
other mailing lists.  ;)   -Paul

Q:  How many NANOG list subscribers does it take
    to change a light bulb?

A:  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
     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.light.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 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.
      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 controversey.
     19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three."
      4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
      1 to propose new alt.change.light.bulb newsgroup.
      47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for,
         leave it here.
      143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.

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Paul R.D. Lantinga  #planting at vfi.com#
Systems Administrator, Verifone IC
"...'proactive' and 'paradigm', aren't these just buzzwords
that dumb people use to sound important?"-The Simpsons










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