Section 13. Acknowledgements

This document is the result of much effort by the present and past
   members of the NNTP Working Group, chaired by Russ Allbery and Ned
   Freed.  It could not have been produced without them.
   The author acknowledges the original authors of NNTP as documented in
   RFC 977 [RFC977]: Brian Kantor and Phil Lapsey.
   The author gratefully acknowledges the following:
   o  The work of the NNTP committee chaired by Eliot Lear.  The
      organization of this document was influenced by the last available
      version from this working group.  A special thanks to Eliot for
      generously providing the original machine-readable sources for
      that document.
   o  The work of the DRUMS working group, specifically RFC 1869
      [RFC1869], that drove the original thinking that led to the
      CAPABILITIES command and the extensions mechanism detailed in this
      document.
   o  The authors of RFC 2616 [RFC2616] for providing specific and
      relevant examples of security issues that should be considered for
      HTTP.  Since many of the same considerations exist for NNTP, those
      examples that are relevant have been included here with some minor
      rewrites.
   o  The comments and additional information provided by the following
      individuals in preparing one or more of the progenitors of this
      document:
         Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
         Wayne Davison <davison@armory.com>
         Chris Lewis <clewis@bnr.ca>
         Tom Limoncelli <tal@mars.superlink.net>
         Eric Schnoebelen <eric@egsner.cirr.com>
         Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
   This work was motivated by the work of various news reader authors
   and news server authors, including those listed below:
   Rick Adams
      Original author of the NNTP extensions to the RN news reader and
      last maintainer of Bnews.
   Stan Barber
      Original author of the NNTP extensions to the news readers that
      are part of Bnews.
   Geoff Collyer
      Original author of the OVERVIEW database proposal and one of the
      original authors of CNEWS.
   Dan Curry
      Original author of the xvnews news reader.
   Wayne Davison
      Author of the first threading extensions to the RN news reader
      (commonly called TRN).
   Geoff Huston
      Original author of ANU NEWS.
   Phil Lapsey
      Original author of the UNIX reference implementation for NNTP.
   Iain Lea
      Original maintainer of the TIN news reader.
   Chris Lewis
      First known implementer of the AUTHINFO GENERIC extension.
   Rich Salz
      Original author of INN.
   Henry Spencer
      One of the original authors of CNEWS.
   Kim Storm
      Original author of the NN news reader.
   Other people who contributed to this document include:
      Matthias Andree
      Greg Andruk
      Daniel Barclay
      Maurizio Codogno
      Mark Crispin
      Andrew Gierth
      Juergen Helbing
      Scott Hollenbeck
      Urs Janssen
      Charles Lindsey
      Ade Lovett
      David Magda
      Ken Murchison
      Francois Petillon
      Peter Robinson
      Rob Siemborski
      Howard Swinehart
      Ruud van Tol
      Jeffrey Vinocur
      Erik Warmelink
   The author thanks them all and apologises to anyone omitted.
   Finally, the present author gratefully acknowledges the vast amount
   of work put into previous versions by the previous author:
      Stan Barber <sob@academ.com>