User:Doctorgage/J.D. Falk

A possible Elevator Pitch line: "J.D. Falk was a pioneer in anti-spam and efforts." -- moof

I'm not feeling adept at prose today so I'll start by simply creating a list of referenced statements which can be massaged into cohesive paragraphs later.

I added some early life facts gleaned from his obituary (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=154717791) -rachel


 * JD was born in Goleta, CA 5/24/1974.
 * JD attended Montgomery Blair HS in Silver Springs, MD where he participated in the Communication Arts Program.
 * JD maintained the Net Abuse FAQ on Usenet in the 90s, though not the original author
 * JD, along with Bill Woodcock, played a role in creating early spam legislation with California state Assembly Bill AB 1676, signed into law in 1998.
 * JD was a founder of CAUCE, and a board member since its inception in 1997


 * JD was a founding member, chairman of the technical committee, chairman of the program committee, chief document editor, and member of the Board of Directors of MAAWG
 * MAAWG created an annual award in his honor
 * JD was an active member of the IETF
 * JD is the author / editor of RFC 6449


 * IIRC, JD got his start with spam when he was a sysadmin at the ISP which Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel used to post their "green card spam" to Usenet from in 1994 - the first major commercial spam campaign. Reference sought.
 * IIRC, JD was head of Abuse at Hotmail/MSN. Official title and reference sought.
 * IIRC, JD was head of Abuse at Yahoo. Official title and reference sought.

Existing Wikipedia articles which mention JD or reference his writings

 * Bill_Woodcock
 * Feedback_loop_(email)
 * Spam_reporting
 * Internet_service_provider
 * DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
 * Usenet_Death_Penalty