John R. Levine is an Internet author and consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and

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s. He chaired the

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( ASRG) of the

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(IRTF), is president of

CAUCE {{Notability, org , date=May 2024 CAUCE, or the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, is a non-profit advocacy group that works to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial email, or spam, via legislation. CAUCE was founded in 1997 by pa ...

(the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), is a member of the

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(Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) Stability and Security Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks. He has co-authored many books, including '' The Internet For Dummies'' (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), ''UNIX For Dummies'' (with Margaret Levine Young), ''Fighting Spam for Dummies'' (with Margaret Levine Young, Ray Everett-Church), qmail (O'Reilly), and ''flex & bison'' (O'Reilly). He was also the mayor of the village of Trumansburg, New York,

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from March 2004 until March 2007. Levine graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale in 1984 with a thesis about the design and implementation of small databases. His doctoral advisor was

Alan Perlis Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was t ...

. His

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at Yale was economist

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. Levine was a co-founder and board member of

Segue Software Borland Software Corporation was a computing technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was developing and selling software development and software deployment products. B ...

and senior programmer at

Javelin Software Javelin Software Corporation (1984–1988) was a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which developed an innovative modeling and data analysis product, also called ''Javelin'' (versions 1.0 in 1984 to 1.1), and later ''Javelin Plus'' (ve ...

. He was a member of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., one of the first computer clubs in the United States. Levine has moderated the comp.compilers

usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...

group since its creation in 1986.

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