On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:36:56PM -0800, ben wrote: > what's godwin's law? that is, i'm interested as long as it goes a step beyond
Godwin's law originates from some of the spectacular flamewars on Usenet. It boils down to this: eventually someone in an argument will bring up Nazis; once this happens the thread is immediately dead, and whoever brought up the Nazis has automatically lost the argument. Of course, bringing up Nazis on purpose to end the argument doesn't count. See more info in the Jargon File. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html Chris Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
