Hi Pete,

Does anyone notice that the opposite seems to be happening on this list? 

REH 


> 
> The contention was that all arguments would eventually lead to the
> invocation of Nazis or Hitler regarding characteristics ascribed to
> the opposing side in the argument. This hypothesis is called "Godwin's
> Law", and is a universally familiar part of Usenet culture. It has
> a further extension: by convention, a thread (topic under discussion)
> is declared to be "Godwinized" when the Nazi reference has occured,
> and by further convention, when this happens, the thread is pronounced
> dead, and discussion is terminated.
>                                       -PV
> 

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