>> 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 :)
