Jef Poskanzer

{{Short description|Computer programmer}} {{notability|date=February 2024}}

{{Infobox person <!-- All fields and invisible comments should be left intact for future editors, even if currently unused. --> | name = Jeffrey A. Poskanzer<!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | image = Jef poskanzer the Wikipedian.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = <!-- text, not flag --> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- text, not flag --> | nationality = <!-- text, not flag --> | other_names = | occupation = computer programmer | known_for = pbmplus | website = }} '''Jeffrey A. Poskanzer''' is a computer programmer. He was the first{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} person to post a weekly [[FAQ]] to [[Usenet]].<ref>{{cite newsgroup |title=Frequently asked questions - weekly automated posting |author=Jef Poskanzer |date=Oct 31, 1989 |newsgroup=comp.graphics |message-id= |url=https://groups.google.com/g/comp.graphics/c/8eud8W8qUHk/m/M2jHKdSJlP4J |access-date=May 20, 2022}} </ref> He developed the [[portable pixmap]] file format and [[pbmplus]] (the precursor to the [[Netpbm]] package) to manipulate it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/history.html|title=Netpbm History|author=|date=|publisher=|access-date=September 11, 2016}}</ref> He has also worked on the team that ported [[A/UX]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acme.com/jef/|title=Jef Poskanzer's Web Page|author=|date=|publisher=|access-date=September 11, 2016}}</ref> He has shared in two [[USENIX#USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award|USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards]] – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

He owns the Internet domain name acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million [[e-mail spam]]s a day<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://acme.com/mail_filtering/|title=Mail Filtering - Introduction|website=acme.com|access-date=2016-09-16}}</ref>), 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.

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==External links== * [http://acme.com/ ACME Laboratories] * [http://acme.com/resume.html Jef Poskanzer's Resumé]

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