The end of a thread

[Walter Giesbrecht]

The end of a thread is determined by Godwin's Law:
<http://hagbard.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/jargon?EXACT:GODWIN'S+LAW>
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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.
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Walter W. Giesbrecht               walterg at yorku.ca
York University Libraries