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Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse)
From: Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:10:41 -0500
On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:38:12 GMT, Rainer Atkins <raineratkins () hotmail com> said:Is it just me, or is it a clear indication that a thread is ending itsuseful life is when people start debating the merits of the analogies thathave been posed rather than the original subject matter of the thread? Or, maybe a thread is exhausted when the analogies start to crop up.No, it's not dead until some jackboot shows up and invokes Godwin. ;)
So, I have always wondered: Can you invoke Godwin for every post on alt.politics.socialist.nazi? :-) Warren. -- The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -- Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General
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- Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse) Rainer Atkins (Feb 17)
- Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 17)
- Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse) Warren Kumari (Feb 17)
- Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse) E.B. Dreger (Feb 17)
- Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 17)