From: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Net.celebrities with more than 60 names
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:12:24 GMT
Reply-To: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Particle Physics


 CANONICAL LIST OF NET.CELEBRITIES 
=================================

Version 1.66.5

What is this list
=================

This is the list of known net.celebrities up to now. There are a
mixture of famous people, net.famous people, and BIFFs. Maybe some of
them will not like being called a net.celebrity, but I think they
can't avoid that, since they are already famous without any list.

Versions
========

We have now a simpler format:

    A.XXX.YYY

Where A is a major version, decided by myself. XXX is the number of
checked entries, YYY is the  number of fake entries.  Uncheked entries
will be considered checked or fake, accordingly to my view.

I will try to bring confusion in different ways :-)

Why
===

From the number of collaborators, seems that there are interest enough
to create a "who is who" in the net. 

Mainly, I do it for fun. I think that is interesting to know *who*
is reading you, and who is writing to you. Also, it can be a way 
to settle the question "It is possible to work and be in the
net at the same time". The answer is obviusly NO, but you should
not tell it to your boss (or mine).

Who are they
============

They are people you would like to know, to ask questions, and read
their thoughts. Most of us feel quite "strange" when receive an answer
from someone we read or read about. Also, mail from them use to have
repercussion in the groups (as the recent posting of Marvin Minsky), or give
an end to a discussion (does X did Y?). The presence of this people in
the net also means that *some* people can really use the usenet for
something and does not stop to produce results.

The people
==========

As you can see in the list see, at least 6 Turing Awards already
posted to or read usenet.

Most of them are famous (or infamous) posters, for various reasons:

 1. author of some book/program/journal collum
 2. maintainer of mailing list/software library
 3. flamer
 4. helpful people
 5. authoritative poster, i.e., one respected in the area he/she posts
 6. net.entitiy, like BIFF or The Oracle



Collaborations
==============

Send collaborations directly to xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch.  

Please state WHAT the persons you suggest do, and why do you think
they should/should not be here. I don't know a lot of them, and fell
silly putting in the list.

Regarding TNHD, the entries there are net., net.god and
net.personality. But I've been seing more the use of "net.celebrity"
around.


My English
==========

Is lousy, comments are allowed, if in good faith.


Copyrights and other items
==========================

  Dear friends, i don't plan to publish this, at least while I don't
have 2000 entries :-), but to let everyone happy:

  This document is in Public Domain.


The entries
===========

These are the meanings of the entries, in a format similar
with the  one used in refer.

#A Address
#B Birthday
#E Worst Enemy
#F Folklore
#G commom groups where <name> is seen
#I Interests
#L Long Explanation
#M Nicknames
#N Name
#O Organization
#P Profession
#S Short ExplanationC Contects


Plans
=====

  This new version is not to be continued. I plan to continue the list
with two versions, one in the old format that I will post ocassionaly,
other with this format that I will leave for anonymous ftp, site to
be decided. I would like to have at least one poster from each group,
so keep contributing.

THE LIST
========


%N Alan Cox
%A rec.games.mud
%L created AberMUD which was the first MUD to make it to the
%L States from the UK (1988), and hence the rest of the world. He also
%L posts to rec.games.mud from pyr.swan.ac.uk, and again infrequently. He
%L usualy posts to correct these upstart Americans who think that people
%L who started playing MUDs in 1989 are old-timers. :-) :-)

%N Andrew Koenig 
%S (C and C++ guru). Author of 'C traps and Pitfalls'.
%L Also write of the column C++ in the Journal Of Object Oriented Programming.

%N Andrew S. Tanembaum
%M Andy Tanembaum
%S creator of the minix and amoeba operating systems
%F He has even offered work positions in the net!
%L Author of 'Computer Networks',
%L 'Structured Computer Organization' and of course the Operating System book
%L that introduced Minix.
%A  (ast@cs.vu.nl). 

%N Bertrand Meyer          
%A
%S creator of Eiffel 
%G comp.language.eiffel
%L Creator of Eiffel, author of "Object Oriented Software Construction"
%L Bertrand is one of the most influent Soft. Eng. in the moment. 

%N BIFF	
%A BIFF@BIT.NET		
%S Famous Fake name - BIFF@BIT.NET
%L BIFF is better described in the New Hacker's Dictionary

%N Bjarne Stroustrup	
%S creator of C++ 
%G comp.language.c++

%N Bob Niland
%A rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM
%G rec.arts.video
%L QUALIFICATIONS; The peter reiher of rec.video.  Immense technical knowledge
%L of video (and related issues), particularly laserdiscs; has written (and
%L maintains) 20-article collection on introduction to laserdisc technology,
%L which is distributable on request -- much better than anything currently on
%L market.  Highly objective and absolutely commited to publishing fact.  Posts
%L very little outside of rec.video
%L CLASSIFICATION: net.resource (Bob publishes hardly at all outside
%L rec.video.)

%N Brad Templeton	
%S editor "rec.humor.funny"

%N Charles Lasner          
%S posts in alt.folklore.computers

%N Chris Torek       
%S       author "Advanced IPC Tutorial"      
%L Chris Torek has done a lot more than the IPC tutorial. In some circles,
%L he's considered 'The most patient man on the net'.  Just read
%L comp.lang.c to read why. He wrote the BSD 4.4 stdio as well.

%N Clifford Stoll	
%S 	author "The Cuckoo's Egg" 

%N Dan Bernstein
%G everywhere

%N Dave Haynie		
%S creator "A3000"

%N Dave Langford		
%S author and critic

%N Dennis Ritchie	
%A dmr@alice.att.com, dmr@research.att.com
%S C Father, Turing Award		 
%L Dennis won theh 1983 Turing Award wit $Ken Thompson$, works for
%L AT&T since 1968, where he continues to design computer languages
%L and systems. Dennis contributed to MULTICS and, together with
%L Ken, was the architect of the  UNIX OS and of the C language.

%N Doug Gwyn 
%S member of ANSI C committee & some POSIX committees
%L  (like Chris Torek a multi-poster... ;-)

%N Douglas Comer 
%G comp.os.xinu. 
%S Douglas Comer write 'Internetworking with TCP/IP'
%L one of the best TCP/IP books around.

%N Eric S. Raymond		
%A eric@snark.thyrsus.com
%S editor "The New Hacker's Dictionary", author (perpratator?) of "C-INTERCAL" 
%G alt.folklore.computers
%L Eric is the major editor of the New Hacker's Dictionary, which
%L he got from $Guy Steele Jr.$. During certain time, Eric was a *great
%L poster to a.f.c, because he was posting all TNHD to it.
%P writer, programmer, 
%E Blair
%C friendly

%N Fred Fish
%A fishpond!fnf@asuvax.eas.asu.edu		
%S maintainer of a collection of PD Amiga Software
%L Fred Fish is the organizer, moderator, and primary distributer
%L of the largest collection of publicly distributable software available
%L for the Amiga.  He started after the A1000 first came out (85), and is
%L still going strong with more than 600 880K disks in the collection.

%N Gene Spafford, 
%S  posts a lot about security

%N Gordon Letwin		
%S Chief architect of OS/2          

%N Guy Steele            
%S Common Lisp, Hacker's Dict.	 

%N Hal Abelson		
%S "Wizard Book" co writer

%N Henry Spencer    
%S net.god
%L Henry Spencer wrote Cnews with Goeff Collyer

%N Herber A. Simon		
%S Heuristic Search, Turing Award

%N Herman Rubin
%G comp.arch comp.lang.misc

%N Jerry Noyajian
%A boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
%G rec.arts.[comics,sf-lovers,tv,movies]
%L major poster to the net for the last 12 years; in this time,
%L has dominated rec.arts.comics, rec.arts.sf-lovers, rec.arts.tv and
%L rec.arts.movies at one time or another.  Much of posting spent in answering
%L questions on SF/film/comics/TV, and in reviewing same (though this has
%L slacked off with age.)  A long-time net info resource, particularly as an
%L archive. 
%L CATEGORY: Certainly a net.personality and .resource; .godhood has been
%L brought up frequently -- depends on where you draw the line, and whether you
%L have a minor or major pantheon.  If you're talking Gene Spafford and Henry
%L Spencer, no; if you're talking almost any old-timer like Rich Rosen or Chuq
%L Von Rospach, etc., who has contributed greatly to the flavor and folklore of
%L the net and is still widely known and remembered, yes.

%N John McCarthy
%S 		AI Father, Lisp, Turing award

%N Jonh Mashey
%A mash@mips.com
%G comp.arch		
%S lives in comp.arch (what?) <really, missing>
%L John is a VP at MIPS Computers. He often posts on comp.arch. His posts
%L are accurate, informative, and funny. He claims to never throw away tech
%L data, and he seems to love quoting other companies claims from years
%L ago. He seems to be fair when talking about non-MIPS products.
%L He is an excellent public speaker. He use to debate Bill Joy on SPARC vs
%L MIPS cpus. 
%L John Mashey	comp.arch, a vice-president of MIPS with a good
%L knowledge and understanding of computer architecture and performance
%L issues.
%F He was so much better than Bill that I think he drove Bill
%F on that speaking tour (I've had both as guest speakers multiple times).
%F Greg

%N Jon Postel	
%S editor of the "RFC series" 
%G mostly rfc announcements		 

%N Ken Thompson 
%S Turing Award, C and Unix
%A (ken@research.att.com). 
%L I know he reads news - 
%L het responded (by mail) about a post I made about a Dutch Grand Master
%L (chess) used his Belle results.

%N Kent Paul Dolan	
%S 	sf-lovers reorganizator

%N Kibo	
%S 		god? typeface designer as human

%N Landon Curt Noll
%M chongo
%S Int'l Obfuscated C Code Contest founder

%N Larry Bassel
%S Int'l Obfuscated C Code Contest co-chair

%N Larry Wall	
%S	creator "patch" and "perl"

%N Mark Eckenwiler      
%S authoritative poster on law issues
%L Well, I exist, although in a slightly different orthographical
%L instantiation. <now correct NED.> :-)  Also, what's missing about me?
%L I am a lawyer, and currently a law clerk for a US federal judge.  I
%L probably mouth off in misc.legal more than I ought to, and like to
%L think I'm not absurdly off-base more than 5% of the time.

%N Mark Israel  
%G posts in soc.singles

%N Marvin Minsky		
%S AI Father, NN, Turing Award

%N Matthias Neeracher      
%S  posts in alt.folklore.computers

%N Mike Godwin 
%A (@eff.org)
%P attorney
%S chief counsel for EFF.

%N Mr Geoff Miller 
%S  Mr alt.tasteless 1991
%A  geoff@purplehaze.sun.com 
%L (Yes, he actually won the award - but was lucky enough not to receive
%L the prize... :-)
%L
%L This is one sick puppy who dominates alt.tasteless and is prolific in
%L other places.
%L  He invented the word 'flatulodilettante' (Someone who doesn't take
%L their farting seriously.)

%N Neil Rickert    
%S         sendmail guru

%N Oracle			
%S The Usenet Oracle 
%G rec.humour.oracle
%L a multiple personality

%N Patricia O. Tuama
%A rissa@
%M Rissa
%S cited in TNHD, alt.flame.goddness

%N Peter A. David
%A pad@
%A cup.portal.com
%S author and cartoonist
%L Writer and artist at Marvel Comics, responsible for the "new"
%L "Incredible Hulk" and some of the X-* comics
%G rec.arts.comics

%N Peter da Silva		
%S posts everywhere, very productive	

%N Peter Neuman 
%S moderator of comp.risks
%L  author of the Inside Risks column in Communications of the ACM

%N Peter Reiher
%A reiher@onyx.jpl.nasa.GOV
%G rec.arts.movies
%L QUALIFICATIONS:  Major (if not *the* major) source of information,
%L particularly insider and industry information, on rec.arts.movies.
%L Reputation for objectivity and an ability to "take the long view"; also fine
%L archival knowledge.  Answers many questions.  Erudite writing capabilites.
%L CLASSIFICATION: net.resource, possibly (though doubtfully) net.celebrity (he
%L posts very little outside of rec.arts.movies, but this is a group that gets
%L a lot of attention.)

%N Peter Yee
%A yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov
%L with $Ron Baalke$, post the majority of the official NASA news
%L postings and are _very_ well known within their domain. 
%O NASA

%N Richard Bartle 
%L created MUD1 and hence spawned the whole MUD thing. He
%L posts rarely (but authoritatively) to rec.games.mud from a public access
%L UNIX machine called Spuddy.
%G rec.games.mud

%N Richard Stallman
%A rms@athena.mit.edu 
%G gnu.*
%S programmer "EMACS, GNU...". Hacker. Founder of the FSF 
%L Founder of the Free Software Foundation, he is the mind behind
%L the GNU project.

%N Rich Salz 
%S  moderator for some time of comp.sources.something...

%N Rick Adams 
%A rick@uunet.uu.net 
%S wrote Bnews.

%N Robert M. Floyd	
%S 	Algorithms, Turing Award

%N Ron Baalke 
%A baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
%L with Peter Yee, These guys post the majority of the official NASA news
%L postings and are _very_ well known within their domain. 
%O NASA

%N Stavros Macrakis
%A macrakis@osf.org	
%S Quoted in the original Hacker's Dictionary

%N Steven Brust	
%S 	Science Fiction author 

%N Ted Frank
%P  a law student at UChicago.
%L Ted provides a valuable "law and economics" perspective, especially
%L since he does research for Judge Richard Posner, a federal appeals
%L judge of great scholarly repute.

%N Terry Carrol 
%S authoritative poster on law issues
%G talk.politics.misc, misc.legal
%P One's a law student somewhere in California

%N Tom Maddox
%P writer
%S Published a short story in an anthology by Bruce Sterling and some novels

%N Vadim Antonov	
%A avg@uunet.uu.net
%S First user .su, cited in TNHD 
%L Vadim probably became famous when he started posting from late USSR.
%L After, he was to attend glory appearing in the TNHD, in one og the
%L most interesting entries (that of kremvax). He was probably envolved
%L in the network of computers that helped to resist the failed punch
%L against Pres. Gorbachev.  
%F not .su anymore
%C friendly

%N Vernor Vinge
%S 		author "True Names... and Other Dangers"  

%N Vonda McIntyre	
%S 	Science Fiction author

%N W. Richard Stevens 
%S      author "UNIX Network Programming"

%N William Starr
%S authoritative poster on law issues
%G misc.legal
%P  Starr is at Northeastern Law in Boston




THE FAKES
=========

% Douglas Adams
%S author "Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy"

%N Matt Groening
%A mgroening@tv.fox.com
%P creator of "The Simpsons"

%N Rudy Rucker		
%L just an uucp address in the directory, hard to check
%L	author of "Software", "The 57th Franz Kafka", and
%L several other bizarre math/computer SF novels and stories. Could be
%L real; I think he's a math professor somewhere.

%N Steven Spielberg	 
%P Do I have to tell you?
%G rec.arts.movies, alt.tv.tiny-toons

%N Willian Gibson		
%S author "Neuromancer" series, Cyberpunk father

%N Will Wheaton 		 
%P actor, performs Wesley Crusher in "Star Trek-The Next Generation" series. 
%G rec.arts.startrek




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This list is here thanks to the collaboration of many. Thanks
to all of you. 

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Collaborators
=============





<cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Alan Braggins <alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com>
Alan D. Danziger <alam@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Bruce Tindal <sasbmt@unx.sas.com>
Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Daniel Baldoni <flint@abel.cs.curtin.edu.au>
Frank Stuart <fstuart@eng.auburn.edu>
James Hague <exuhag@exu.ericsson.se>
Jay.Ashoworth@f160.n3603.z1.fidonet.org (Jay Ashoworth) - Mark Israel entry (+)
Joan Eslinger <wombat@kilimanjaro.key.amdahl.com>
John Coughlin <wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca>
John Russel <john.russel@canrem.com>
Lars Viklund <lvi@ida.liu.se>
M. Otto <otto@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Mark Christofer <christo@bnr.ca>
Matthew Farwell <dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk
Mike <mike@uel.co.uk>
Nathan Engle <nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
Rich <rrauenza@Ares.CalPoly.EDU>
Thomas Farmer <tfarmer@ferrari.datamark.co.nz>
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <toriver@pvv.unit.no>
Vadim Antonov <avg@uunet.uu.net>
Vijay K. Gurbani <viajy@cdsun.fnal.gov>
ccs7@aberystwyth.ac.uk (Christopher Samuel)
eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
edwardsg@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Gregory W. Edwards)
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
jc@cs.kun.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn Leroy)
mike@uel.com.uk (Mike)
moriarty@tc.fluke.com (Jeff Meyer)
wschmidt@iao.fhg.de (Wolfram Schimdt)

   For the files,

            Jerry
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