Marc Perkel
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Marc Perkel is the Founder of the Church of Reality, the owner of a spam filtering company, Junk Email Filter, and the first full time system administrator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Member of NCSG and NCUC. Interests include technology, civil liberties, and philosophy.
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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.
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.
1996 Put a server online and started web and email hosting.
1998 ran for United States Congress as a Democrat. Made it into the general election but lost to incumbant Roy Blunt.
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.
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."
2000 moved from Springfield Missouri to San Francisco California.
2001 Started working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a volunteer. After a few month became an employee.
2001 developed spam filtering technology for EFF and my hosting business.
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.