Jef Poskanzer

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]}

Jeffrey A. Poskanzer
Occupation	computer programmer
Known for	pbmplus

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.

Notes

1. Jef Poskanzer (Oct 31, 1989). "Frequently asked questions - weekly automated posting". Newsgroup: comp.graphics. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
2. "Netpbm History". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
3. "Jef Poskanzer's Web Page". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
4. "Mail Filtering - Introduction". acme.com. Retrieved 2016-09-16.

External links

• ACME Laboratories
• Jef Poskanzer's Resumé