[ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation - WAY, WAY, WAY OT now!!!

[SanMillan, Todd]

full definition from the Jargon file:
(http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html)

[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a
comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many
groups that,
once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has
automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus
practically
guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional
triggering of
Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be
unsuccessful." 

-----Original Message-----
From: aaron
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: 6/28/2002 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation - WAY, WAY, WAY OT
now!!!

> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 10:24, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> <<snip>>
> > the toxic cloud. I could go on with this line for months on end.
> > Hitler went to a private school.
> <<snip>>

On Friday 28 June 2002 10:40, you wrote:
> I believe that Godwin's Rule has been invoked here.
 <grin>
If you are implying that there is some "rule" of behavior or etiquette 
that now demands an end to this thread, the FAQ's would disagree:
  [ from :  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/ ]

I.  The Basics
  1.  What is Godwin's Law? Godwin's Law is a natural law of Usenet
named 
after Mike Godwin (godwin at eff.org) concerning Usenet "discussions".  It 
reads, according to the Jargon File:

    As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
                involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Godwin's "law" is just a statement of probability theory and not some 
Nazi Rule you can invoke to end interesting, ongoing, off topic 
discussions!
 <\grin>


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