On Mar 4, 2018 5:23 PM, "Clem Cole" <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
As for the 'tosser' that is making claims, I am under the impression he some how succeeded in getting a copyright for it.  How is unclear, but he did.   And that's his claim for invention based on work he did which he admits was in 1978 -- which is 7-10 years after the ArpaNet:  [ http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/who-really-invented-email/.]  To me, a strange part is that he suing people that claim otherwise.  I really don't see how he can win those, but I'm not a laywer and I guess copyright gives him certain rights.   O note that, I have been using messaging system - aka email, pretty nearly ever day since I first start using computers in the late 1960s.  So I have a very hard time taking this guy seriously.

Not only is he a tosser, he's also a political crank. He took part in a "free speech" rally this past summer, which was a thinly disguised venue for white supremacists.

He's apparently mounting a bid for the US Senate, which is odd in and of itself, but he's acquired an aged school bus that he's painted and is using as a prop for his candidacy. It just so happens that I was driving down the same road as that bus earlier today and was stopped at a traffic light next to it for a minute or so. "Oh, that's that crazy email guy...." It made me more than usually annoyed.

        - Dan C.