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Mike Godwin  
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 More options Aug 18 1991, 11:42 pm
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From: mnemo...@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Date: 18 Aug 91 21:50:29 GMT
Local: Sun, Aug 18 1991 5:50 pm
Subject: Re: Nazis (was Re: Card's Article on Homosexuality
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In article <1991Aug18.203938.6...@menudo.uh.edu> j...@navier.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:

>Who was it that said: "Whenver somebody starts mentioning Nazis on
>USENET, you know the discussion has gone on too long."?  (Or something
>to that effect.)

I said it.

Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

--Mike

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