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Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?C

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Subject: Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?C
From: Han <han@mijncomputer.nl>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 05:47:31 +0200
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Martin Marconcini (megadeth@millic.com.ar) wrote:
> MY PUBLIC STATEMENT FOLLOWS:
> Either you are stupid, which I don't think so, or you don't know
> about...

> 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.

Please read the last sentence off Godwin's law. What is your excuse to
mention the comparison? I am sorry this is to much for me.


Cya, Han.

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