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[Andrea Duda]

I knew this thread would come to an end eventually.  You're all familiar
with Godwin's law, right?  I think it applies to mailing lists as well as
newsgroups. 

Godwin's Law

prov. [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. 

You can find more of the jargon file at 
http://hagbard.ncsa.uiuc.edu/jargon-index.html

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                                Andrea L. Duda             
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           Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara 
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Jim Hurd wrote:

> 
> 	I seem to recall that that line of reasoning was quite in vogue in
> Germany in the 30's.   
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Millard Johnson wrote:
> :*******
> 		(snips)
> 
> :I tend to think an ethical responsibility of citizenship is to report
> :violations of law - even if we are sympathetic to the violator....... 
> 
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