Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

On 7/3/2019 5:41 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> tl;dr: credit where due memo
>
>> 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.
>
> tj has (privately) corrected me.  the attribution of applying this to
> fidonet was ben baker.
>
> randy

Randy, did you help piggy pack the fidonet backbone across zones (1-6) 
via your early academia internet or x.25 connections?

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HLS