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Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 03 July 2019 21:41 UTC

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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

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