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

Wed Feb 18 02:10:41 UTC 2004

On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:38:12 GMT, Rainer Atkins 
> <raineratkins at hotmail.com>  said:
>>
>> Is it just me, or is it a clear indication that a thread is ending its
>> useful life is when people start debating the merits of the analogies 
>> that
>> have 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.

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