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| + | '''Marc Perkel''' is the Founder of the [http://www.churchofreality.org Church of Reality], the owner of a spam filtering company, [http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter], and the first full time system administrator for the [http://www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation]. Member of [[NCSG]] and [[NCUC]]. Interests include technology, civil liberties, and philosophy. |
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| + | == Background == |
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| + | Marc Perkel, born in 1955 Wheeling West Virginia USA. Designed and built first computer in 1971-1973 out of pin ball machine relays. First real computer in 1979 IMSAI S100 Z80 based. Wrote operating system from front panel switches one byte at a time. Developed a Forth type computer language called Slick (as in "that's slick") used for machine control for custom designed computer in laser shows to chicken house environmental controllers. |
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| + | In 1984 opened a computer retail store in Springfield Missouri USA Computer Tyme. Sold CP/M and IBM compatibles. Evolved into software development company in 1989 producing DOS software packages DOS Toolbox and Network Survival Kit for DOS clients on Novell Netware networks. |
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| + | 1996 Put a server online and started web and email hosting. |
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| + | 1998 ran for United States Congress as a Democrat. Made it into the general election but lost to incumbant Roy Blunt. |
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| + | 1998 Founded the Church of Reality, a doubt based religion based on the idea of believing in what is real. Created Realist as a religious identity that is dedicated to the pursuit of the understanding of objective reality by humanity and the survival and positive evolution of the human race. |
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| + | 2000 ran for United States Senate in Republican primary against John Ashcroft and lost. Became known as "The guy who lost to the guy who lost to the dead guy." |
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| + | 2000 moved from Springfield Missouri to San Francisco California. |
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| + | 2001 Started working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a volunteer. After a few month became an employee. |
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| + | 2001 developed spam filtering technology for EFF and my hosting business. |
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| + | 2003 Started the spam filtering business under the name Junk Email Filter, a hosted spam filtering service where the MX is pointed to our servers, we filter the inbound email, and forward the good email to existing servers. |