[108460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey ISC, thanks for providing free wifi to intercage!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Oct 3 21:08:32 2008
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:38:27 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.999999.0810031944070.28528@linuxbox.org>
Cc: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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.
