Ray,

You're a Nazi - further, an Indian Nazi. They're the worst kind!

So there. Godwin is saved and the thread is ended.

Harry

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Ray wrote:

>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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