Re: Analogies=dead threads (was RE:Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse)

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam () noc everquick net>]

RA> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:38:12 +0000
RA> From: Rainer Atkins

RA> Is it just me, or is it a clear indication that a thread is
RA> ending its useful life is when people start debating the
RA> merits of the analogies that have been posed rather than the
RA> original subject matter of the thread?

I move that we recognize this phenomenon as "Atkins' Law".


Apologies for further reducing the SNR,
Eddy
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