The end of a thread

[Steve Hooley!]

        But is it OK to compare my ideological enemies to the Japanese, or
to Tojo? What if I say, 'you book-burnin' fascist brownshirt, you're no
better than Mussolini?' Would that be more conducive to a rational argument?
Would it end up as Hooley's Law? Would I just get flamed some more... 

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>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>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> 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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