The name "Emily Postnews" is a pun, referring first to Emily Post, a self-appointed expert on social etiquette and second, to the postnews program, an early piece of Usenet client software.
Brad Templeton — who posted Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on netiquette on Usenet
Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate, Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems, Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts, Bruce Wallace author of Asteroids in Space, and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com company ClariNET.
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--Coined when?--> by Brad Templeton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to explain the tactics of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which files large numbers of lawsuits against individuals for file sharing, and DirecTV, which once filed large numbers of lawsuits against users of smart cards.
Among the individuals Ulitzer claimed had contributed original articles are; Bill Joy, Bob Balaban, Brad Templeton, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Perens, Christopher Lambert, David Weber, Eric S. Raymond, James Gosling, John Edwards, Ken Thompson, Larry Ellison, Rob Malda, and Tim O'Reilly.