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Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Wed, 03 July 2019 16:16 UTC

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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:16:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Scott O. Bradner" <sob@sobco.com>, IETF Rinse Repeat <ietf@ietf.org>
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 16:56, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> [ just hitting reply to be in thread, not pointing at you, sob ]
>
> tom jennings (still a friend), the creator of fidonet[0], was repeatedly
> pressured to make rules.  he eventually gave in and made two rules.  of
> course, they immediately became expanded by the embellishers, resulting
> in https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt, from which i quote
>
>   The FidoNet judicial philosophy can be summed up in two rules:
>
>      1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others.
>
>      2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.
>
>
I think I'm right in suggesting that all legal codes are simply this, but
with a little more definition of "annoy", "excessively", and "easily".

Dave.

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