David Casey wrote:

:On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:05:40 -0700, TinCanMan wrote:
:
: I believe that invokes Godwins law.
:
: Just because some Americans speak a dialect English one assumes they
: are civilised. In practice this seems unjustified.
:
: Godwin's law is only invoked when the anology is not true. In this case, the
: NAZI card is a well documented fact and invocation of Godwin is admission of
: an inadequate arguement.
:
: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
ver, 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. However there
:is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of
:Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be
:unsuccessful.
:
:http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms...win_s_Law.html

One has to wonder how Mr Godwin's name got attached to this, since it
was around long before he discovered the net.