The author gratefully acknowledges the comments and additional
    information provided by the following individuals:
    Wayne Davison 
    Chris Lewis 
    Tom Limoncelli 
    Eric Schnoebelen 
    Rich Salz 

    This work was precipitated by the work of various newsreader
    authors and newsserver authors which includes those listed below:
    Rick Adams    -- Original author of the NNTP extensions to the RN
                     newsreader and last maintainer of Bnews
    Stan Barber   -- Original author of the NNTP extensions to the
                     newsreaders 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 newsreader



    Wayne Davision-- Author of the first threading extensions to the
                     RN newsreader (commonly called TRN).
    Geoff Huston  -- Original author of ANU NEWS
    Phil Lapsey   -- Original author of the UNIX reference
                     implementation
    Ian Lea       -- Maintainer of the TIN newsreader
    Chris Lewis   -- First known implementor 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 newsreader