On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:20 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Preston Crawford wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > >>You know I like you anyway. I can get used to you and simply delete your > >>posts or the threads that I have finished with. > > > > > > I agree. Bryan (if you can cut through the volume and the presentation) > > is right about a lot of things and has important things to say. Most of > > the time these little tiffs are white noise to me too. It's just that it > > flares up into these battles on the list sometimes and it gets > > ridiculous eventually. > > It's been noted that all threads on the 'net eventually degrade into > people calling each other "Nazi". > ---- fwiw :Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." 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 those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. Godwin himself has discussed the subject. Craig