Jef Poskanzer

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Jeffrey A. Poskanzer
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Occupationcomputer programmer
Known forpbmplus

Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first[ citation needed ] person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. [1] He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the Netpbm package) to manipulate it. [2] He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. [3] He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.[ citation needed ]

He owns the Internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million e-mail spams a day [4] ), which is the home page for ACME Laboratories. It hosts a number of open source software projects; major projects maintained include both pbmplus and thttpd, an open source web server.

Notes

  1. ↑ Jef Poskanzer (Oct 31, 1989). "Frequently asked questions - weekly automated posting". Newsgroup:  comp.graphics . Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Netpbm History" . Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jef Poskanzer's Web Page" . Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Mail Filtering - Introduction". acme.com. Retrieved 2016-09-16.


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