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and other senders of mass email and he argues that Verio's actions constitute censorship. He also notes that his configuration makes it easier for friends who travel to send email, although his critics counter that there are other mechanisms to accommodate people wanting to send email while
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traveling. The measures Gilmore took to make his server useless to spammers may or may not have helped, considering that in 2002, at least one mass-mailing worm that propagated through open relays — W32.Yaha — had been hard-coded to relay through the toad.com mail server.
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The sale amounts to some millions of dollars, which will be used in the furtherance of ARDC's continuing public benefit purpose.... The uppermost 1/4 of the former AMPRNet address space (
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announced that they had removed Gilmore from the Board following a governance dispute. The details of the dispute were not made public.
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if it cannot connect to the email server listed in that registry key, it will use one of the following: , toad.com,
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in mid-2019, a block of approximately four million consecutive AMPRNet addresses denoted as
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Verio censored John Gilmore's email under pressure from anti-spammers.
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that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".
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media player in December 2005 to create a free software player for
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was ... sold to the highest qualified bidder at the then-current
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On June 23, 2024, Gilmore was selected as a board member of the
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As of June 1, 2023, new.toad.com is still an open mail relay.
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domains. It was registered on August 18, 1987. He runs the
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movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU
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He unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of
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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
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John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs
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York, Pennsylvania
EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cypherpunks
Cygnus Solutions
alt.* hierarchy
Usenet
GNU Project
civil libertarian
Federal Aviation Administration
United States Department of Justice
Gilmore v. Gonzales
secret travel-restriction laws
drug policy reform
Bootstrap Protocol
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
IP address
Sun Microsystems
Cygnus Support
San Francisco
free software
GNU
GNU Debugger
GNU Radio
Gnash
Flash
tar
FreeS/WAN
IPsec

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