xxx Preface
Rich Salz is a Principal Software Engineer at the Open Software
Foundation, where he works on the Distributed Computing Environment.
Rich has been active on the Usenet for many years; during his multiyear
tenure as moderator of comp.sources.unix he set the defacto standards for
Usenet source distribution still in use. He also bears responsibility for
InterNetNews, one of the most virulent NNTP implementations of Usenet.
More importantly, he was twice elected editor-in-chief of his college
newspaper, The Tech, but both times left school rather than serve out his
term. Rich wrote the Snoozenet chapter.In producing this book, we have used and frequently incorporated mes-
sages from Phil Agre, Greg Anderson, Judy Anderson, Rob Austein, Alan
Bawden, Alan Borning, Phil Budne, David Chapman, Pavel Curtis, Mark
Friedman, Jim Davis, John R. Dunning, Leonard N. Foner, Simson
Garfinkel, Chris Garrigues, Ken Harrenstien, Ian D. Horswill, Bruce
Howard, David H. Kaufman, Tom Knight, Robert Krajewski, James Lee
Johnson, Jerry Leichter, Jim McDonald, Dave Mankins, Richard Mlynarik,
Nick Papadakis, Michael A. Patton, Kent M. Pitman, Jonathan Rees,
Stephen E. Robbins, M. Strata Rose, Robert E. Seastrom, Olin Shivers,
Patrick Sobalvarro, Christopher Stacy, Stanley’s Tool Works, Steve Strass-
mann, Michael Tiemann, Michael Travers, David Vinayak Wallace, David
Waitzman, Dan Weinreb, Daniel Weise, John Wroclawski, Gail Zacharias,
and Jamie Zawinski.The Unix Barf Bag was inspired by Kurt Schmucker, a world-class C++
hater and designer of the infamous C++ barf bag. Thanks, Kurt.We received advice and support from many people whose words do not
appear here, including Beth Rosenberg, Dan Ruby, Alexander Shulgin,
Miriam Tucker, David Weise, and Laura Yedwab.Many people read and commented on various drafts of this manuscript. We
would especially like to thank Judy Anderson, Phil Agre, Regina C.
Brown, Michael Cohen, Michael Ernst, Dave Hitz, Don Hopkins, Reuven
Lerner, Dave Mankins, Eric Raymond, Paul Rubin, M. Strata Rose, Cliff
Stoll, Len Tower Jr., Michael Travers David Waitzman, and Andy Watson.
A special thanks to all of you for making many corrections and sugges-
tions, and finding our typos.We would especially like to thank Matthew Wagner at Waterside Produc-
tions. Matt immediately gravitated to this book in May 1992. He was still
interested more than a year later when Simson took over the project from
Daniel. Matt paired us up with Christopher Williams at IDG Programmers
Press. Chris signed us up without hesitation, then passed us on to Trudy