Re: Hey ISC, thanks for providing free wifi to intercage!

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com>]

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.

--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.