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
