Jef Poskanzer
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Who is 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 to manipulate it. Additionally, he has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. 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 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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