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Tue Apr 17 22:20:04 EDT 2001 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/096809.html

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> In article <slrn9dooe0.cor.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>,
> Steve Lamb <morpheus at here.not.there> wrote:
>
> >     Yess, that was an attempt at Godwin.  No offense, Alex.  :)
> 
> One of the corollaries to Godwin is that deliberately invoking Godwin
> doesn't count.

Except that Godwin's law is just a statistical observation.  It's the
_convention_ that people often use that talks about threads ending;
Godwin's law proper says nothing at all about that.

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