Jef Poskanzer
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Jeffrey A. Poskanzer | |
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| Occupation | computer programmer |
| Known for | pbmplus |
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[edit]
- ^ Jef Poskanzer (Oct 31, 1989). "Frequently asked questions - weekly automated posting". Newsgroup: comp.graphics. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
- ^ "Netpbm History". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Jef Poskanzer's Web Page". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Mail Filtering - Introduction". acme.com. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
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