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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.
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
general notability guideline. (February 2024) |
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.