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Awatmath.1400 net.jokes utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Fri Jan 8 01:31:59 1982 How many USENET people does it take to change a light bulb? Well, it all depends. If the person decides to change it quietly, only one. If he mentions it on the net however...

One to have a bulb that needs changing. One to start up a group called net.lightbulbs. Another to suggest it should be called net.bulb so subgroups can exist. Another to post to net.lb and two more to yell at him/her. Another to post to net.bulb Mark to claim net.bulb is official. Another to start up net.bulb.ge to discuss whether General Electric bulbs are the best type. Another to say that as news administrator of N machines, he should decide the name of the newsgroup. Two more to suggest that the whole issue of what kind of light bulbs to use be discussed at USENIX. Ten more to claim that many who won't be at USENIX still use bulbs and that the net is the right place to discuss it. One person to make a typo and post to net.bulbs. Somebody in the midwest to claim that since they use exclusively LEDs that their funders would not tolerate system resources being used to discuss light bulbs, and that they will not take or forward net.bulb. Three members of the ACLU to claim this is censorship and evil. Two more to defend it as control of resources. One to ask in net.unix-wizards if anybody has a DH driver that can control an rs-232 lightbulb controller. Another to insist that no DH on a 780 has lightbulbs attached. Somebody from the ARPANET to insist that DCA will not fund discussion of lightbulbs that are not DOD approved. Matt and Mark again to suggest a usenet policy on bulbs.

As you might have guessed, the correct answer is infinite, cause it will never end... -Brad Templeton

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