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How many fishkeeping mail list subscribers does it take to do a water change?

Author:
Martin.

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Date Posted: 13:34:43 09/05/01 Wed

1,275: -
1 to change the water and to post to the mail list that the water has been changed;
14 to share similar experiences of water changing and suggest different methods of achieving the same result;
7 to warn about the dangers of water and electricity;
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing water;
6 to argue over the percentage of water that should be changed;
156 to write to the list administrator about the water change discussion and it's inappropriateness to this mail list;
109 to post that this list is not about water changing and to please take this email exchange to aquariumwaterchng-l;
203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and aquamaint-l about water changing be stopped;
111 to defend the posting to this list saying that all fishkeepers should do regular water changes and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;
16 to argue whether it is "fishkeeping" or "Fish keeping"
another 16 to condemn those 16 as anal-retentive;
306 to debate which method of changing water in an aquarium is superior, where to buy the best gravel cleaners and which brands work best;
27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different gravel cleaners;
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and the post the corrected URL's;
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this list which makes water changing 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 water changing controversy;
19 idiots to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three";
4 to suggest that posters request a water changing FAQ;
44 to ask what is "FAQ";
4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on Usenet?"
143 to ask "what's Usenet?"

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