"Phil Kane" wrote:
On 02 Aug 2003 23:46:47 -0800, Floyd Davidson wrote:

Mike Godwin, with whom I met and debated in several seminars on
Computer Freedom and Privacy in the 90s, tossed out "Godwin's Law"
in a moment of sarcasm.....

It was not sarcasm. It was a very *intentional* experiment in
social engineering on the net, and it was clearly very
successful too!

Knowing Mike, it had to have a lot of "let's see who salutes it"
irony in it.

Oh, it was *loaded* with that!

Here's an interview where he explained how it started, and what
he was thinking of.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html

He's a neat guy - we once debated the perceived role
of the FCC in content regulation while we were in the men's room
during a session break (I was still with the agency at the time).....
ggg

He was very active on Usenet back when it was a small community,
and certainly added productively to the discussions that he
engaged in.

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Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)