On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:12:50AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I failed in ending this thread when I posted > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00016.html > > instead I caused two trolls making even more noise.
Without having read your post, I'm pretty confident that you failed *because of* Godwin's Law. It is a part of Godwin's Law that calling someone a Nazi (directly or by implication) with the sole purpose of ending a thread *does not* end it. It's a pitty that Godwin's Law has fallen in such a state of misunderstanding. Using the word Nazi does not end a thread. Talking about Nazi or National Sozialismus does not end a thread. References to those concepts do not automatically end a thread. Godwin's Law is about degradation in S/N: a thread will degrade to the point where it's only noise, and reaching this point it dies. Now it's up to you to find out what 'noise' means in this particular case. > I hope all you people are aware that you are causing a new duelling > banjo case and helping out Google to connect Debian with hot-babes. Actually I don't find it that bad. Between slowly fixing stuff in my packages and trying to catch up with several debian mailing lists, the hot-babe thread has proven rather amusing[0]. If two years from now some teen googles for "hot babe" and lands up on Debian's homepage, why is it bad? > 3. Go to debian-curiosity with mails which do not belong to > debian-devel. debian-curiosa is neither a garbage dump nor a place where you can badmouth other people, as some folks seem to think, and the hot-babe thread really has no place there. Marcelo [0] Completely OT: I find it rather hard to beleive that there are people who actually hold some of the opinions that I've read so far. Currently the "Parlament" of my country is discussing the passing of a law which pushines several forms of abuse of women *by* men by not the same forms of abuse of men by women. Ignoring the fact that existing law already refers to and punishes such actions *and* that it goes directly against our Constitution, this particular law has some people rather tickled, including myself: it is hard to beleive that at the dawn of the XXI century, there's still people out there who approach the "gender" problem in this way. You just can't solve a gender problem by creating more differentiation.