The end of a thread

[Alexander Stroup]

I just have to ask.  Does this mean that flame wars are really short on
soc.history.war.world-war-ii?

On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Walter Giesbrecht wrote:
> 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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