tl;dr: credit where due memo > 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. tj has (privately) corrected me. the attribution of applying this to fidonet was ben baker. randy
