The end of a thread [with no loose ends]

[scharles]

And if so, how are they on answering technical questions?

SC

At 10:38 PM 6/9/97 -0700, someone wrote:
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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?
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>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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