Re: opt-out registry comments

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Joe Abley wrote:

>
> On 2011-08-03, at 12:15, Graham Leggett wrote:
>
>> On 03 Aug 2011, at 3:18 PM, Bretton Vine wrote:
>>
>>> Spam is a nuisance. However not as costly a nuisance as irate
>>> recipients
>>> emote[1].
>>
>>> [1] in the absence of data to the contrary
>>
>> You sir, are a chocolate covered marshmallow.[1]
>
> I was looking for an existing write-up on the phenomenon whereby hot 
> political issues (particularly those relating to spam) have the effect 
> of destroying netops mailing lists, making them unusable for everybody 
> but a tiny handful of vocal, armchair lawyers who like to type, so that 
> I could send a link to it. But I couldn't find one.
>
> Perhaps nobody has written about this. Someone should.

Joe -

I'm a bit older then you so I'll just mention that the problem
is far older then netops mailing lists:

http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/faqs/godwin/

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.

- Lucy

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