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Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net> Wed, 03 July 2019 16:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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From: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:11:22 -0400
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On 7/3/2019 12:09 PM, 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
> cool!  thanks for the cite!  i will use it to poke tj :)

Even better - the actual story: 
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1957-11/Galaxy_1957_11#page/n33/mode/2up/search/annoy

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