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This file is somewhat incomplete due to it being taken from 1.5.1 and not
1.6 (didn't want to mention work done that's not in this release).

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The following is a list of the people who've helped out by contributing
code. If anyone's name has been left out (probably), or if I've not
correctly attributed something to you (ditto), please let me know (don't be
embarrased).

Rich Salz:
	Designed and wrote most of it.

Bob Halley:
	Did the TCL extension.

Christophe Wolfhugel:
	Did the Perl extension.

Doug Needham:
	Made nnrpd spool if innd is unavailable.
	Made nnrpd handle the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command.
	Added the rebilding of control connections to innd (SIGUSR1 handling)
	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.

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 actsync, nntpsend, shrinkfile.

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

Craig Leres:
        Did work on dbz.

Oliver Friedrichs
        tracked down a lot of potential buffer overflows.

Jerry Aguirre
        Did a whole bunch stuff for INN (including crosspost and streaming).
        Provided a speed-up for channel processes.

Forrest J. Cavalier III
	Did a lot of work cleaning up and removing bugs introduced 
	by the fixes to the security holes.

Dave Barr
	Managed the project after Rich couldn't do it any more.

The following people helped above and beyond the call of duty with
testing (provided patches, bug reports, suggestions etc):

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, Joe Greco, Matthias Scheler, Richard
Michael Todd, Fabien Tassin, Trevor Riley, Katsuhiro Kondou, 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, Sven Paulus, Koichi
Mouri, J. Richard Sladkey, Trine Krogstad, Holger Burbach, Per Hedeland,
Larry Rosenman, Andrew Burgess, Michael Brunnbauer, Mike Brudenell,
Philippe Charnier, Karsten Thygesen, John Giannandrea, John Line, Philippe
Michel