- Todd H -
What's that law of usenet? Something about when capitalization,
spelling, punctuation, or Hitler analogies enter the discusion, one
knows the argument has been won.

- Nehmo -
Two trolls could have a contest: The first to get plonked wins. Or the
one to attract the most foul-word names could win too. And legitimate
newsgroup posters can compete to give the best answers to questions. But
outside of something like these examples, it's simplistic to reduce
complicated interactions, like usenet discussions, to wins and losses.

The “laws” you are referring to are usually humorous collections of
apparent contradictions. Example: A spelling flame will have its own
spelling error. More of them he
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/laws.html

The Hitler one, which comes is various forms, can be summarized by
Godwin's rule:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I don’t see this one as true.

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