Jef Poskanzer Explained

Jeffrey A. Poskanzer
Occupation:	computer programmer
Known For:	pbmplus

Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first 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.

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.

External links

• ACME Laboratories
• Jef Poskanzer's Resumé

Notes and References

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