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Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net> Wed, 03 July 2019 16:03 UTC

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On 7/3/2019 11:56 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> 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
> inhttps://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.


Actually, those came from a science fiction story about a culture that 
had those as the only two rules.   This 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Were_Right,_Joe)  seems to be the 
correct reference.   Mike

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