On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Noel Butler wrote:
I'll post what I want, when I want and however I want, and no self appointed net nazi is going to tell me otherwise.
Ah! You mentioned the Nazis. Now we know the thread is over. :)
We should mention Nazis more often to end threads here. Godwin's law to the rescue.
Deliberate invocation of Hitler does not invoke Godwin's law (courtesy Gym Quirk .. now that's a name from the past.. havent read usenet in about a decade.
According to another interpretation, any invovation is allowed, although following it is optional and mostly dependent on peer pressure. I just made that up. That guy, did .. too.
--srs
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/
6. "Hitler!" Ha! The thread is over!
Nope, doesn't work that way. Not only is it wrong to say that a thread is over when Godwin's Law is invoked anyway (Usenet threads virtually always outlive their usefulness), but long ago a corollary to the Law was proposed and accepted by Taki "Quirk" Kogama (quirk@swcp.com):
Quirk's Exception: Intentional invocation of this so-called "Nazi Clause" is ineffectual.
Sorry, folks. Nice try, though.