Q: How many list/board members does it take to change a spark plug?
A: 1,445:
1 to change the spark plug and to post that
the sparkplug 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 administrator about the
spark plug discussion and its inappropriateness.
109 to post that the list/forum is not
about spark plugs and to please take the discussion to sparkplug
flamelist-l/personal mail.
203 to demand cross posting about changing
spark plugs be stopped/it is good debate for the board.
111 to defend the posting saying that we
all use spark plugs and therefore the posts *are* relevant.
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 diesel owners.
58 to question why diesel owners are on a
non-diesel list/forum.
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 the list/board which therefore makes
spark plugs relevant to the list/board.
33 to link all posts to date, then quote
them including all headers and footers and then add "me too"
12 to post 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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