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 Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is president of

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(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), and ''flex & bison'' (O'Reilly). He was also the mayor of the village of

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, New York,

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from March 2004 until March 2007. Levine graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

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

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. His

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at Yale was economist

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. Levine was a co-founder and board member of

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and senior programmer at

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. 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 is the only moderator of the comp.compilers

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group for 32 years.

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