[ 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. mike asked solid and critical questions. when not answered, he became a bit more strident. as one to whisper twice and then nuke from orbit, i find it hard to fault him. when the response is an attack on his tone, with no response to his question(s), and coming from two members of the iesg, i am alarmed and deeply saddened by an abuse (due to imbalance) of power in what is easily construed as an attempt to silence. this is severely damaging the ietf and the internet. please stop. just stop. randy, who intends to spend the rest of the day doing engineering, you might too --- 0 - "FidoNet: technology, tools, and history," Communications of the ACM Volume 36 Issue 8, August 1993. https://archive.psg.com/930000.fidonet-acm.pdf
