Godwin's Law [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." It goes on to say, "There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in these groups." At 07:02 AM 9/12/01, you wrote: >Hey scott, who Godwin and what's his law? Help out a >nieve chump here. > >At 12:11 AM 9/12/01 -0500, you wrote: > >> familiar, it should... Hitler 1933 > > > >This thread is now dead due to Godwin's law.