Ayyadurai v. Floor64, Inc. et al

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COMPLAINT against All Defendants Filing fee: $ 400, receipt number 0101-6439091 (Fee Status: Filing Fee paid), filed by Shiva Ayyadurai. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Exhibit, # 3 Exhibit, # 4 Exhibit, # 5 Exhibit, # 6 Exhibit, # 7 Exhibit, # 8 Exhibit, # 9 Exhibit, # 10 Exhibit, # 11 Exhibit, # 12 Exhibit, # 13 Exhibit, # 14 Exhibit, # 15 Exhibit, # 16 Exhibit, # 17 Exhibit, # 18 Exhibit, # 19 Exhibit, # 20 Exhibit, # 21 Exhibit)(Cornell, Timothy)

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(Incidentally note that the "see also" portion of this man page references "write"
an instant messaging program. Yeah. In 1975.)

Here's a link to a well- researched page about Ayyadurai's bogus, lying, totally false

claims:

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(Incidentally note that the "see also" portion of this m an page references "write"

an instant messaging program. Yeah. In 1975.)

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Here's a link to a well- researched page about Ayyadurai's bogus, lying, totally false
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showed up anywhere. I can find no trace of his alleged source code in any of the
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documents which trace the histoiy and evolution of email. I find no messages from
him in any of the mailing lists discussing mail, SMTP (the Simple Mail Transfer

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Protocol), mail servers, maii clients, mail system operations, or anything else. To

time fertile touches and pitchforks, I think.

contrast and compare: there are THOUSANDS of message from many of the key
contributors and hundreds of thousands more from peopie who had cr problem or
solved cr problem, found cr bug or published cr fix, encountered a configuration issue
or published cr how-to. Ayyadurai simply doesn't exist at all - which isn't surprising,
because his piffling and unimpoitant project existed in isolation and contributed

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precisely zero to the development of email.

wrong, of course... ASCAP and MPAA seen as
the Office's only constituents. How about us
citizens instead?

Ayyadurai is particularly annoying because of his bogus claims of racism : those of us

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who were actually there know that the ARFAnet and CSnet and Usenet and BITnet
were built by ridiculously diverse groups of people: just look at the names on the
documents and the software. Ayyadurai's claims are annoying and absolutely false:

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they're a cheap stunt designed to make him appear the victim, and they're insuiting

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to everyone who actually has been disadvantaged because of their race or ethnicity

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heavy lifting - Ray Tomlinson being one of them. All of those people have eschewed
credit, preferring to see their work as building on that of others and minimizing
their own contributions. Ayyadurai has seized on this to claim everything for his own,
when in fact he contributed nothing of value or interest.

I kinda hope he sues TechDfrt, because the discovery process will be fascinating. He
wifi face dozens, if not hundreds, of subject-matter experts -- peopie like me who
have been running real mail servers (not his bogus, worthless tripe) for decades.

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People who wrote the code. People who wrote the standards. Peopie who have
archives of all of this going back 20, 30, 40 years. People who are willing to invest a
lot of time stacking supporting evidence to the ceiling and giving expert first-hand
testimony

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Ayyadurai is a liar. He is a fraud. He is a charlatan. He is an unimpoitant nobody who
has contributed nothing and deserves to be remembered as a posing, selfaggrandizing asshole - nothing more.
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You forgot to mention that Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email.

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