This document is my attempt to give credit where credit is due. Not "attribution of legal copyrights", just acknowledgement of the individuals who have contributed in some way to the development of Synchronet BBS Software.
Contributors
Rob Swindell (digital man)
I feel a little funny listing myself... however, I have, and will continue to contribute quite a
bit. :-)
Stephen Hurd (Deuce)
Substantial UNIX porting and original code contributions (e.g. signal/daemon/syslog/termcap/terminfo/pty support)
Internal FreeBSD-doscmd support for DOS doors
Numerous contributions/improvements to the cross-platform development library
(XPDEV)
UNIX installer
and top-level installation
makefile Sysop console for UNIX (umonitor)
User Interface library (UIFC)
implementations for libdialog, curses, and FLTK and major updates/improvements
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client (irc.js)
Original Synchronet web server implementation
(websrvr.c)
Secondary name server for the synchro.net domain
Numerous DOS Door ports to UNIX
Trace McRae (PistolGrip)
HTML documentation conversion and contributions
The ubiquitous and very helpful sbbsdoor.txt The first user e-mail verifier for Synchronet v3 (Telval)
Allen Christiansen (King Drafus)
Numerous Synchronet v2 improvements
Initial development of SBBSecho All the Domain Entertainment BBS doors and utilities
Steve Deppe (Ille Homine Albe)
Local console and remote communications I/O
library for Synchronet-DOS
Millisecond wait/time-slice yield
routine
for Synchronet-DOS
ANSI console driver for OS/2 and WinNT virtual DOS machines (SVDMANSI)
Angus Mcleod Optimized strrev() (string reversal) implementation
The idea behind Synchronet Services and numerous other technical suggestions and brain-storms
Merlin Finger service "filefind" feature
Early web server-side JavaScripting
And of course there have been numerous very helpful alpha and beta testers over the years, unfortunately, too many to list by name.
Your contributions to the development of Synchronet are very important. Without users, no one (including me) would have much interest in developing Synchronet and without early-adopters and good bug-reports and feature requests, we wouldn't know what areas could use improvement. :-)
Thank You
Thanks to everyone on this list and everyone in the open-source and BBS hacker/hobbyist communities.
The world could use more people like you.
