[108461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey ISC, thanks for providing free wifi to intercage!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Oct 4 01:04:10 2008
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:03:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0810031808m6df6d14agf92b9bd6089f6863@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 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.
According to another interpretation, any invovation is allowed, although
following it is optional and mostly dependent on peer pressure.
I just made that up. That guy, did .. too.
> --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.
>
