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-The following is a list of the people (in roughly chronological order)
-who've helped out. If anyone's name has been left out (probably), or if
-something has been incorrectly attributed to you (ditto), please let us
-know.
-
-Rich Salz:
- Designed and wrote most of it.
-
-Bob Halley:
- Did the TCL extension.
-
-Christophe Wolfhugel:
- Did the Perl extension and provided several other fixes.
-
-Doug Needham:
- Made nnrpd spool if innd is unavailable. Made nnrpd handle the
- LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command. Added the rebuilding of control
- connections to innd (SIGUSR1). Got inews to ask the nntp peer for
- moderator info instead of digging it out of a local file.
-
-David Lawrence:
- Did the hooks for PGP verificiation of control messages, added
- actived support for syncing against an active file obtained via
- ftp.
-
-John Stapleton:
- Wrote the poison newsgroup code ('@') for newsfeeds(5). Wrote the
- too-many-connects support ('-X -H -T' flags to innd).
-
-Landon Curt Noll:
- Wrote or co-wrote actsync, nntpsend, shrinkfile, innstat,
- news.daily, tally.control and various man pages. He also was the
- person originally behind the site directory
- configuration/installation process.
-
-John Levine:
- Wrote the '-e' support for expire (expire on shortest time).
-
-Matthias Urlichs:
- Made rnews recognise gzip compression. Made newsfeeds(5) take the
- 'Wp' flag.
-
-Stefan Petri:
- Did the original XBATCH support
-
-Russel Street:
- Did more XBATCH support.
-
-Alan Barrett:
- Did the work-limiter in the select loop to stop streaming from
- killing performance.
-
-Greg Patten:
- Wrote the perl innlog.
-
-Clayton O'Neill:
- Wrote the articles storage API and implemented the timehash
- and regular storage mechanisms with it. He made significant
- modifications to dbz. Integrating innfeed, adding Xref slaving,
- the history cache, the WIP rewrite and various speedups were
- also his doing. Provided the tradindexed overview mechanism.
- Implemented the O flag in newsfeeds. Did a bunch of early work on
- the CVS repository, reorganization of the code, and committing
- patches from others.
-
-Vincent Archer:
- Wrote the initial autoconf scripts.
-
-Forrest J. Cavalier III:
- Provided a lot of bug fixes to 1.5.2. He extended the autoconf
- setup a lot to work with version 2.0, and has provided a lot of
- valuable design input and testing.
-
-Scott Fritchie:
- Wrote the CNFS storage back end.
-
-Fabien Tassin:
- Wrote the innreport package. Implemented the new incoming.conf
- configuration file. Added support for nested profile timers.
-
-Jeremy Nixon:
- Wrote the initial patch for Perl filtering of message IDs on IHAVE
- or CHECK and other patches related to the filtering code.
-
-Karl Kleinpaste:
- Wrote the experimental code for automatically generating keywords
- from incoming articles and putting those keywords in the overview
- for the use of readers.
-
-Dave Hayes:
- Along with some bugfixes, Dave wrote the posting-backoff code for
- nnrpd and the patches to the perl hooks to make the headers
- modifiable.
-
-Joe Greco:
- Wrote the code for measuring the timing of various parts of innd
- and the original actived code.
-
-Sang-yong Suh:
- Provided the fuzzy offset technique to dbz.
-
-Katsuhiro Kondou:
- Provided unified overview, the buffindexed overview method, trash
- storage method, spool translation method, traditional expire
- policy for articles stored through storage API and expireindex, as
- well as hundreds of fixes to clean up defects as changes were
- made. Did a large amount of man page documentation and clean up.
- Has also been a major force in the CVS pool maintenace.
-
-Russell Vincent:
- Expanded inn.conf to make many of the old compile time options
- into run time variables. Numerous bug fixes, small feature
- enhancements and man updates.
-
-Darrell Fuhriman:
- Provided various bug fixes and contributed to the pre-SM CNFS
- development.
-
-Steve Carrie:
- Modified nnrpd to allow detailed client tracking, added the -R
- flag to nnrpd.
-
-Ed Mooring:
- Wrote the first Perl filter callbacks into INN.
-
-Aidan Cully:
- Provided the patches to support the new readers.conf file, and
- wrote the initial user authenticators and resolvers for the
- readers.conf. Provided the patches to support the new
- storage.conf format. Added the option to store articles based on
- the Expires header. Also added the '@' article exclusion code to
- incoming.conf.
-
-Andrew Gierth:
- Contributed improvements to the nnrpd Perl filtering support to
- give access to message bodies and support the DROP and SPOOL
- keywords in filter returns.
-
-Russ Allbery:
- Has done large amounts of clean-up on various pieces of the system
- (especially the documentation and build system), and has helped
- with the CVS pool maintenance. Improved the speed and portability
- of the Perl filter. Rewrote the tradindexed overview method for
- additional robustness. Has done extensive work on libinn,
- breaking out common code from other parts of INN. Lots of other
- fixes to various parts of INN.
-
-Kai Henningsen:
- Implemented the C and U flags in newsfeeds.
-
-Julio Sanchez:
- Wrote the initial libtool support for INN.
-
-Igor Timkin:
- Added min-queue-connection support to innfeed, added outgoing
- volume logging and reporting, and provided a variety of bug
- fixes.
-
-Heath Kehoe:
- Various portability and bug fixes, wrote the ovdb overview
- mechanism that uses Berkeley DB.
-
-Richard Todd:
- Implemented the timecaf and tradspool storage mechanisms, as well
- as many bug fixes and other contributions.
-
-Brian Kantor:
- Wrote the news2mail gateway.
-
-Ilya Etingof:
- Added Python authentication support for nnrpd.
-
-Kenichi OKADA:
- Added preliminary SSL and SASL support for nnrpd.
-
-Olaf Titz:
- Implemented MODE CANCEL support, as well as other patches and bug
- fixes.
-
-Sven Paulus:
- Wrote the support for variables in newsfeeds, contributed various
- other patches and bug fixes.
-
-Krischan Jodies:
- Wrote the SMB authenticator.
-
-Alex Kiernan:
- Wrote the history API, generalized the timer code in innd and
- innfeed into a generic timer library, reworked the NEWNEWS code
- and added a history cache, and contributed various other bug fixes.
-
-Marco d'Itri:
- Wrote gpgverify and overhauled controlchan and its modules. Added
- IPv6 support to innd and inndstart. Contributed a rewritten
- send-uucp. Has also contributed a variety of bug fixes and helped
- with testing.
-
-Jeffrey M. Vinocur:
- Broke parts of the interface with nnrpd for authentication programs
- into a separate library, added various features to readers.conf,
- and wrote various other fixes and feature improvements,
- particularly to nnrpd.
-
-Erik Klavon:
- Significantly reworked nnrpd Perl and Python hooks to be more useful
- in combination with the readers.conf mechanism.
-
-Nathan Lutchansky:
- Added IPv6 support to innfeed, nnrpd, and supporting programs.
-
-Also:
-
-Dave Barr:
- Kept INN alive after Rich Salz didn't have the time any more but
- before the ISC took over. He released 4 unofficial versions that
- provided a good boost to what the ISC started with. Minor work
- on 2.0, mostly with example files and minor code tweaks.
-
-James Brister:
- The chief maintainer of INN from when the ISC took over
- maintenance through the 2.2 release, James is also the original
- author of innfeed and has made fixes, improvements, and feature
- additions all over the code.
-
-Marc Fournier:
- Provided various bug fixes and did a lot of work integrating other
- peoples patches and looking after the CVS pool. Helped
- significantly with the conversion to autoconf. Added the ability
- to set connection limits on a per-host basis.
-
-Joshua M. Thompson
- Wrote the original INSTALL documentation.
-
-The following people helped above and beyond the call of duty with testing
-(provided patches, bug reports, suggestions, documentation improvements,
-and lobbying):
-
-Paul Vixie, Robert Elz, Evan Champion, Robert Keller, Barry Bouwsma,
-markd@mira.net.au, Ollivier Robert, Kevin Jameson, Heiko W. Rupp,
-Fletcher Mattox, Matus Uhlar, Gabor Kiss, Matthias Scheler,
-Richard Michael Todd, Trevor Riley, Alex Bligh, J. Porter Clark,
-Alan Brown, Bert Hyman, Petter Nilsen, Gary E. Miller, Kim Culhan,
-Marc Baudoin, Neal Becker, Bjorn Knutsson, Stephen Marquard,
-Frederick Korz, Benedict Lofstedt, Dan Ellis, Joe Ramey,
-Odd Einar Aurbakken, Jon Lewis, Dan Riley, Peter Eriksson, Ken Lalonde,
-Koichi Mouri, J. Richard Sladkey, Trine Krogstad, Holger Burbach,
-Per Hedeland, Larry Rosenman, Andrew Burgess, Michael Brunnbauer,
-Mohan Kokal, Robert R. Collier, Mark Hittinger, Miquel van Smoorenburg,
-Boyd Lynn Gerber, Yury B. Razbegin, Joe St. Sauver, Heiko Schlichting,
-John P. Speno, Scott Gifford, Steve Parr, Robert Kiessling,
-Francis Swasey, Paul Tomblin, Florian La Roche, Curt Welch,
-Thomas Mike Michlmayr, KIZU Takashi, Michael Hall, Jeff King,
-Edward S. Marshall, Michael Schroeder, George Lindholm, Don Lewis,
-Christopher Masto, Hiroaki Sengoku, Yury July, Yar Tikhiy, Kees Bakker,
-Peter da Silva, Matt McLeod, Ed Korthof, Jan Rychter, Winfried Magerl,
-Andreas Lamrecht, Duane Currie, Ian Dickinson, Bettina Fink,
-Jochen Erwied, Rebecca Ore, Felicia Neff, Antonio Querubin, Bear Giles,
-Christopher P. Lindsey, Winfried Szukalski, Edvard Tuinder,
-Frank McConnell, Ilya Kovalenko, Steve Youngs, Jacek Konieczny,
-Ilya Voronin, Sergey Babitch, WATANABE Katsuhiro, Chris Caputo,
-Thomas Parmelan
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