Jef Poskanzer

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

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

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  1. ↑ Netpbm history
  2. ↑ Jef Poskanzer's Web Page at ACME Laboratories


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