Re: RFC Series Editor Resignation

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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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