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
