On 7/3/2019 5:41 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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
Randy, did you help piggy pack the fidonet backbone across zones (1-6)
via your early academia internet or x.25 connections?
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HLS
