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 ;;; about.el --- the About The Authors page (shameless self promotion).
 ;;;
-;; Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 XEmacs Advocacy Organization.
+;; Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 XEmacs Advocacy Organization.
 ;; This file is part of XEmacs.
 ;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 ;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 ;; General Public License for more details.
 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 ;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 ;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF.
 ;;; This is kind of a kludge.  We were going to use W3 to do this, but
 ;;; Soft: FG 2.0, DigiPaint 3.0, pbmplus (dec 91), xv 3.0.
 ;;; Modified for 19.11 by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri@eng.sun.com>
 ;;;		      and Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>
 ;;; More hacking for 19.12 by Chuck Thompson and Ben Wing.
 ;;; 19.13 and 19.14 updating done by Chuck Thompson.
-;;; 19.15 and 20.0 updating done by Steve Baur.
 (require 'browse-url)
-(require 'view-less)
 (defvar about-xref-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
 			 (define-key map 'button1 'about-xemacs-xref)
 			 (define-key map 'button2 'about-xemacs-xref)
 			 (define-key map '(return) 'about-xemacs-xref)
 			 map))
 (set (make-local-variable 'tab-width) 8)
 (setq buffer-read-only t)
 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer)		;; assume the new view-less
 (let* ((buffer-read-only nil)
 (emacs-short-version (concat emacs-major-version "." emacs-minor-version))
-(emacs-about-version (format "version %s; October 1997" emacs-short-version))
+(emacs-about-version (format "version %s; June 1996" emacs-short-version))
 	 (indent-tabs-mode t)
 	 )
 (erase-buffer)
 (insert "\n")
 (indent-to (startup-center-spaces xemacs-logo))
 	(due to firewalls) in order to work correctly.\n\n\t")
 (insert "XEmacs is the result of the time and effort of many people.
 	The developers responsible for the " emacs-short-version " release are:
-		 * ") (about-xref "Vin Shelton" 'vin "Find out more about Vin Shelton") (insert "  <acs@acm.org>
-* ") (about-xref "Steve Baur" 'steve "Find out more about Steve Baur") (insert "  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
-		 * ") (about-xref "Martin Buchholz" 'mrb "Find out more about Martin Buchholz") (insert "  <mrb@eng.sun.com>
-		 * ") (about-xref "And many other contributors..." 'others "Read about the legion of XEmacs hackers") (insert "
-	Chuck Thompson was Mr. XEmacs from 19.11 through 19.14.  Ben Wing
-	was crucial to each of those releases.
 		 * ") (about-xref "Chuck Thompson" 'cthomp "Find out more about Chuck Thompson") (insert "  <cthomp@xemacs.org>
 		 * ") (about-xref "Ben Wing" 'wing "Find out more about Ben Wing") (insert "  <wing@xemacs.org>
+		 * ") (about-xref "And many other contributors..." 'others "Read about the legion of XEmacs hackers") (insert "
 	Jamie Zawinski was Mr. Lucid Emacs from 19.0 through 19.10,
 	the last release actually named Lucid Emacs.  Richard Mlynarik
 	was crucial to most of those releases.
 (save-excursion
 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "About XEmacs"))
 (toggle-read-only 0)
 (let ((rest (if who-to-load (list who-to-load)
-		  '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig jwz mly vladimir baw piper bw wmperry kyle larsi jens vin dkindred)))
+		  '(cthomp wing stig jwz mly vladimir baw piper bw wmperry)))
 	  (got-error nil))
 (while rest
 	(let* ((who (car rest))
 	       (who-xpm (expand-file-name
 			 (concat (symbol-name who)
 ))
 (defun about-add-mosaic ()
 (goto-char (point-min))
 (about-load-mosaic)
-)
 ;; HERE TO PLACE ADDITIONAL MUGSHOTS
-;; This is losing badly to a redisplay glitch, and it doesn't scale up.
+(goto-char (point-max))
+(insert "\n   ")
-;  (goto-char (point-max))
-;  (insert "\n   ")
+(let ((rest '(cthomp wing stig linebreak jwz mly vladimir linebreak baw piper bw linebreak wmperry))
+	(got-error nil))
-;  (let ((rest '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig linebreak jwz mly vladimir linebreak baw piper bw linebreak wmperry kyle larsi jens))
+(while rest
-;	(got-error nil))
+(if (eq (car rest) 'linebreak)
-;    (while rest
+	  (insert "\n\n  ")
-;      (if (eq (car rest) 'linebreak)
+	(let* ((who (car rest))
-;	  (insert "\n\n  ")
+	       (b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
-;	(let* ((who (car rest))
+	       (p (symbol-value-in-buffer who b nil)))
-;	       (b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
+	  (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
-;	       (p (symbol-value-in-buffer who b nil)))
+	  (and p
-;	  (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
+	       (let ((e (make-extent (point) (point))))
-;	  (and p
+		 (set-extent-begin-glyph e p)
-;	       (let ((e (make-extent (point) (point))))
+		 (set-extent-property e 'keymap about-xref-map)
-;		 (set-extent-begin-glyph e p)
+		 (set-extent-property e 'xref who)))
-;		 (set-extent-property e 'keymap about-xref-map)
+	  (insert " ")
-;		 (set-extent-property e 'xref who)))
+	  (sit-for 0)))
-;	  (insert " ")
+(setq rest (cdr rest)))
-;	  (sit-for 0)))
+(insert "\n")
-;      (setq rest (cdr rest)))
+(goto-char (point-min))
-;    (insert "\n")
+(or got-error (message nil)))
-;    (goto-char (point-min))
+)
-;    (or got-error (message nil)))
-;  )
-(defvar about-xref-alist
-'((w3-xemacs   . "http://www.xemacs.org/")
-(w3-jamie    . "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/")
-(w3-baw      . "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/")
-(w3-python   . "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/")
-(w3-infodock . "http://www.infodock.com")
-(w3-kyle     . "http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/")
-(w3-dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html")
-(w3-larsi    . "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/")
-(w3-hrvoje   . "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/")
-(w3-upa      . "http://www.upa.org")
-;; add more here
-(w3-ajc	 . "http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ajc/")
-)
-"Mappings between xref symbols and URLs")
 (defun about-xemacs-xref ()
 (interactive "@")
 (let* ((e (or current-mouse-event last-input-event))
 	 (extent (or (and (null e) (extent-at (point)))
 ;; reached from two different locations
 (if (equal (buffer-name) "About XEmacs")
 	(setq prev-page 'about)
 ;; Kill the sub-buffers when going back to the top, so that we
 ;; don't hold pointers to the bitmaps longer than necessary.
-(if (not (assq xref about-xref-alist))
+(if (not (eq xref 'w3-jamie))
 	  (progn
 	    (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
 	    (setq prev-page 'others))))
 (cond
 ((eq xref 'about)
 (about-xemacs))
 ((eq xref 'info)
 (info))
-((assq xref about-xref-alist)
+((or (eq xref 'w3-xemacs) (eq xref 'w3-jamie))
 (funcall browse-url-browser-function
-	       (cdr (assq xref about-xref-alist))))
+	       (if (eq xref 'w3-xemacs)
+		   "http://www.xemacs.org/"
+		 "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/")))
 ((eq xref 'kill-buffer)
 (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
 ((eq xref 'news)
 (view-emacs-news)
 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer)		;; assume the new view-less
 			       ((eq xref 'baw) "About Barry Warsaw")
 			       ((eq xref 'wmperry) "About William Perry")
 			       ((eq xref 'bw) "About Bob Weiner")
 			       ((eq xref 'piper) "About Andy Piper")
 			       ((eq xref 'stig) "About Jonathan Stigelman")
-			       ((eq xref 'steve) "About Steve Baur")
-			       ((eq xref 'mrb) "About Martin Buchholz")
-			       ((eq xref 'kyle) "About Kyle Jones")
-			       ((eq xref 'larsi) "About Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen")
-			       ((eq xref 'jens) "About Jens Lautenbacher")
-			       ((eq xref 'vin) "About Vin Shelton")
-			       ((eq xref 'dkindred) "About Darrell Kindred")
-			       ((eq xref 'ajc) "About Andrew Cosgriff")
-			       ((eq xref 'rickc) "About Rick Campbell")
-			       ((eq xref 'thiessel) "About Marcus Thiessel")
 			       ((eq xref 'others) "About Everyone")
 			       ((eq xref 'features) "New XEmacs Features")
 			       ((eq xref 'history) "XEmacs History")
-			       (t (error "Can't follow xref: %s" xref))
 			       )))
 (delete-other-windows)
 (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
 (widen)
 (setq buffer-read-only t)
 predilection for dark, Gothic music remains unabated.
 	Come visit his glorified .plan file at
 		")
-	  (about-xref "http://people.netscape.com/jwz/" 'w3-jamie "Visit Jamie's WWW page")
+	  (about-xref "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/" 'w3-jamie "Visit Jamie's WWW page")
-	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'steve)
-	  (about-face "Steve Baur" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
-	Steve took over the maintenance of XEmacs in November of 1996
-	(it seemed like a good idea at the time ...).  In real life he is a
-	network administrator for Calag.com, Inc.  A small ISP in central
-California.  His main hobby while not maintaining XEmacs or working
-is ... you have got to be kidding ...")
-	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'mrb)
-	  (about-face "Martin Buchholz" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <mrb@eng.sun.com>
-	Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@sun.com>
-	Technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro), a
-	division of Sun Microsystems.  Martin used to do XEmacs as a
-	`hobby' while at IBM, and was crazy enough to try to do it
-	for a living at Sun.  Martin is currently working mostly on
-	Internationalization.")
 	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
 	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'cthomp)
 	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
 	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'rickc)
-	  (about-face "Rick Campbell" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <rickc@lehman.com>
-	The hacker formerly known as Rick Busdiecker develops and maintains
-	libraries for financial applications at Lehman Brothers during
-	daylight hours.  In the evenings he maintains three children, and
-	when he ought to be sleeping he co-maintains ILISP, builds XEmacs
-	betas, and tinkers with various personal hacking projects.\n")
-	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'vladimir)
 	  (about-face "Vladimir Ivanovic" 'bold)
 	  (insert " <vladimir@mri.com>
 	Former technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro),
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'baw)
 	  (about-face "Barry Warsaw" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <bwarsaw@python.org>
+	  (insert " <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us>
-	Author of CC Mode, for C, C++, Objective-C, and Java editing,
+	Author of cc-mode for C++, C, and Objective-C editing, and
-	and Supercite for mail and news citing.  Also various and
+	Supercite for mail and news citing.  Also various and sundry other
-	sundry other Emacs packages, utilities, fixes, enhancements
+	Emacs utilities, fixes, enhancements and kludgery as whimsy,
-	and kludgery as whimsy, boredom, and ToT dictate (but not
+	boredom, and ToT dictate (but not necessarily in that order).
-	necessarily in that order).  See also:\n
-")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/" 'w3-baw
-		      "Visit Barry's WWW page")
-	  (insert "\n	and:
-")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/" 'w3-python
-		      "Visit the CC Mode distribution")
-	  (insert "\n\n
 	Daddy
 	� 1994 Warsaw
-	=============
+	========
 	Drive me Daddy, drive me quick
 	Push my pedal, shift my stick
 	Fill me up with golden gas
 	My rubber squeals, I go real fast
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'bw)
 	  (about-face "Bob Weiner" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <weiner@infodock.com>
+	  (insert " <weiner@mot.com>
 	Author of the Hyperbole everyday information management
 	hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
 	browser.  He also designed the InfoDock integrated tool
 	framework for software engineers.  It runs atop XEmacs and is
-	available from his firm, InfoDock Associates, which offers custom
+	available from \"/anonymous@ftp.xemacs.org:pub/infodock\".
-development and support packages for corporate users of XEmacs,
-GNU Emacs and InfoDock.  See ")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.infodock.com" 'w3-infodock
-		      "Visit the Infodock WWW page")
-	  (insert "
 	His interests include user interfaces, information management,
 	CASE tools, communications and enterprise integration.")
 	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
 	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
 	 ((eq xref 'wmperry)
 	  (about-face "William Perry" 'bold)
 	  (insert " <wmperry@spry.com>
 	Author of Emacs-w3, the builtin web browser that comes with XEmacs,
-	and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
+and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
-	the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
+the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
-	face attribute support).
+face attribute support).
-	He is currently working at Aventail, Corp. on SOCKS v5 servers.")
+He is currently working on adding really cool stylesheets to the
+web, which will stress the new capabilities of XEmacs to the limit.
+He only gets paid for working on an HTTP server for Spry, but will
+hack emacs for beer.")
 	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'kyle)
-	  (about-face "Kyle Jones" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
-	Author of VM, a mail-reading package that is included in
-	the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
-	improvements and bug fixes.  Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
-	uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
-	thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
-	readers such as Berkeley Mail and ELM.
-	See ")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/" 'w3-kyle
-		      "Visit Kyle's WWW page")
-	  (insert ". \n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'larsi)
-	  (about-face "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
-	Author of Gnus the Usenet news and Mail reading package in
-	the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of various
-	enhancements and portability fixes.  Lars is a student at the
-	Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo.  He is
-	currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
-	Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
-	CERN and stuff.
-	See ")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/" 'w3-larsi
-		      "Visit Lars' WWW page")
-	  (insert ". \n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'jens)
-	  (about-face "Jens Lautenbacher" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
-	Jens did the artwork for graphics added to XEmacs 20.1 and 19.15.
-	I'm currently working at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-	on getting my diploma thesis on Supersymmetry (uuh, that's
-	physics) done.  After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
-	looking forward to make a living out of my hobbies --
-	computers (and graphics). But because I have no deadline for
-	the exams and XEmacs betas are released at a high rate this
-	may take some time...")
-	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'vin)
-	  (about-face "Vin Shelton" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <acs@acm.org>
-Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages in order to bring ") (about-face "you" 'italic) (insert " a more
-stable XEmacs.  (Actually, he does it 'cause it's fun and he's been
-using emacs for a long, long time.)  Vin also contributed the detached
-minibuffer code as well as a few minor enhancements to the menubar
-options.
-I own and operate my own consulting firm, EtherSoft.  Shhh, don't
-tell anyone, but it's named after an Ultimate team I used to play
-with in Austin, Texas - the Ether Bunnies.  I'm getting too old
-to play competitive Ultimate any more, so now I've gotten roped
-into serving on the board of directors of the Ultimate Players
-Association.  See ")
-(about-xref "http://www.upa.org/" 'w3-upa "Visit the UPA homepage")
-	  (insert ".\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'dkindred)
-	  (about-face "Darrell Kindred" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <dkindred@cmu.edu>
-	Darrell tends to come out of the woodwork a couple of weeks
-	before a new release with a flurry of fixes for bugs that
-	annoy him.  He hopes he's spared you from a core dump or two.
-	Darrell is currently a doctoral student in computer science at
-	Carnegie Mellon University, but he's trying hard to kick that
-	habit.
-	See ")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html"
-		      'w3-dkindred "Visit Darrell's WWW page")
-	  (insert ".\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'thiessel)
-	  (about-face "Marcus Thiessel" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <thiessel@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
-	On May 1, 1996 he started working at University of Kaiserslautern in
-	the field of computer aided analog circuit design. His
-	responsibilities include the development and design of a CAD-Tool for
-	analog integrated circuits with special emphasis on distributed
-	software concepts.
-	When all the daily hacking is done he tries to take care of XEmacs
-	website at <http://www.xemacs.org>.\n")
-	  (insert ".\n\n\tClick ")
-	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
-	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
-	  )
-	 ((eq xref 'ajc)
-	  (about-face "Andrew Cosgriff" 'bold)
-	  (insert " <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>
-	When not helping maintain the XEmacs website, Andrew is a Network
-	Software Engineer(tm) for Monash University in Australia, maintaining
-	webservers and doing random other things.  As well as spending spare
-	time being an Eager Young Space Cadet and fiddling with XEmacs/Gnus
-	et. al., he spends his time pursuing, among other things, a Life.
-	Some of this currently involves doing an A-Z (by country) of
-	restaurants with friends, and has, in the past, involved dyeing his
-	hair various colours.
-	See ")
-	  (about-xref "http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ajc/"
-		      'w3-ajc "Visit Andrew's WWW page")
-	  (insert ".\n\n\tClick ")
 	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'others)
 	  (insert "
 	Like most free software, XEmacs is a collaborative effort.
 	These are some of the contributors; we have no doubt forgotten
 	someone; we apologize!  You can see some of our faces further below.
+	Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@sun.com>
+	  Technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro), a
+	  division of Sun Microsystems.  Martin used to do XEmacs as a
+	  `hobby' while at IBM, and was crazy enough to try to do it
+	  for a living at Sun.  Martin is currently working mostly on
+	  Internationalization.
 	") (about-xref "Vladimir Ivanovic" 'vladimir "Find out more about Vladimir Ivanovic") (insert " <vladimir@mri.com>
 	  Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun Microsystems.  He is
 	  now with Microtec Research Inc., working on embedded systems
 	  development tools.
 	  out of a big white van set up for nomadic living and hacking.
 	  Implemented the faster stay-up Lucid menus and hyper-apropos.
 	  Contributor of many dispersed improvements in the core Lisp code,
 	  and back-seat contributor for several of it's major packages.
-	") (about-xref "Barry Warsaw" 'baw "Find out more about Barry Warsaw") (insert " <bwarsaw@python.org>
+	") (about-xref "Barry Warsaw" 'baw "Find out more about Barry Warsaw") (insert " <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us>
-	  Author of CC Mode for C, C++, Objective-C and Java editing,
+	  Author of cc-mode for C++, C, and Objective-C editing, and
-	  and Supercite for mail and news citing.  Also various and
+	  Supercite for mail and news citing.  Also various and sundry other
-	  sundry other Emacs packages, utilities, fixes, enhancements
+	  Emacs utilities, fixes, enhancements and kludgery as whimsy,
-	  and kludgery as whimsy, boredom, and ToT dictate (but not
+	  boredom, and ToT dictate (but not necessarily in that order).
-	  necessarily in that order).  See also:
-")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/" 'w3-baw
-		      "Visit Barry's WWW page")
-	  (insert "\n	  and:
-")
-	  (about-xref "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/" 'w3-python
-		      "Visit Barry's Emacs Goodies page")
-	  (insert "
 	") (about-xref "Andy Piper" 'piper "Find out more about Andy Piper") (insert " <andyp@parallax.co.uk>
 	  Created the prototype for the toolbars.  Has been the first to make
 	  use of many of the new XEmacs graphics features.
-	") (about-xref "Bob Weiner" 'bw "Find out more about Bob Weiner") (insert " <weiner@infodock.com>
+	") (about-xref "Bob Weiner" 'bw "Find out more about Bob Weiner") (insert " <weiner@mot.com>
 	  Author of the Hyperbole everyday information management
 	  hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
 	  browser.  He also designed the InfoDock integrated tool
 	  framework for software engineers.  It runs atop XEmacs and is
-	  available from his firm, InfoDock Associates, which offers custom
+	  available from \"/anonymous@ftp.xemacs.org:pub/infodock\".
-development and support packages for corporate users of XEmacs,
-GNU Emacs and InfoDock.  See ")
-	(about-xref "http://www.infodock.com" 'w3-infodock
-		    "Visit the Infodock WWW page")
-	(insert ".
 	  His interests include user interfaces, information management,
 	  CASE tools, communications and enterprise integration.
-	") (about-xref "William Perry" 'wmperry "Find out more about Bill Perry") (insert " <wmperry@aventail.com>
+	") (about-xref "William Perry" 'wmperry "Find out more about Bill Perry") (insert " <wmperry@spry.com>
-	  Author of Emacs-w3, the builtin web browser that comes with XEmacs,
+	  Author of W3, a package for browsing the World Wide Web
-	  and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
+	  which is included in the standard XEmacs distribution.
-	  the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
+	  Although W3 runs on all versions of Emacs, Bill has been
-	  face attribute support).
+	  quick to take advantage of the unique features of XEmacs
+	  (such as embedded images and windows).  Thus, the XEmacs
-	") (about-xref "Kyle Jones" 'kyle "Find out more about Kyle Jones") (insert " <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
+	  version of W3 is significantly more powerful than versions
-	  Author of VM, a mail-reading package that is included in
+	  running in other Emacs variants.
-	  the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
-	  improvements and bug fixes.  Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
+	Kyle Jones <kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com>
-	  uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
+	  Author of VM (View Mail), a mail-reading package that is
-	  thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
+	  included in the standard XEmacs distribution, and
-	  readers such as Berkeley Mail and ELM.
+	  contributor of many improvements and bug fixes.  Unlike most
-	  See ")
+	  other mail-reading packages, VM uses the standard Unix-mail
-	(about-xref "http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/" 'w3-kyle
+	  format for its mailboxes; thus, you can use VM concurrently
-		    "Visit Kyle's WWW page")
+	  with standard mail readers such as Unix mail and ELM.
-	(insert ".
+	Darrell Kindred <Darrell.Kindred@cmu.edu>
-	") (about-xref "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" 'larsi "Find out more about Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen") (insert " <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
+	  Unofficial maintainer of the xemacs-beta list of extant
-	  Author of Gnus the Usenet news and Mail reading package in
+	  bugs and contributor of an extraordinary number of
-	  the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of various
+	  important bug fixes, many of them in areas that neither
-	  enhancements and portability fixes.  Lars is a student at the
+	  Chuck nor Ben was particularly enthusiastic about
-	  Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo.  He is
+	  investigating.
-	  currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
-	  Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
-	  CERN and stuff.
-	  See ")
-	(about-xref "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/" 'w3-larsi
-		    "Visit Lars' WWW page")
-	(insert ".
-	") (about-xref "Jens Lautenbacher" 'jens "Find out more about Jens Lautenbacher") (insert " <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
-	  I'm currently working at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-	  on getting my diploma thesis on Supersymmetry (uuh, that's
-	  physics) done.  After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
-	  looking forward to make a living out of my hobbies --
-	  computers (and graphics). But because I have no deadline for
-	  the exams and XEmacs betas are released at a high rate this
-	  may take some time...
-	") (about-xref "Vin Shelton" 'vin "Find out more about Vin Shelton") (insert " <acs@acm.org>
-	  Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages.  Vin also contributed the
-	  detached minibuffer code, as well as a few minor enhancements to
-	  the menubar options.
-	") (about-xref "Marcus Thiessel" 'thiessel "Find out more about Marcus Thiessel") (insert " <thiessel@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
-	  Marcus is one of the XEmacs Webmasters.
-	") (about-xref "Darrell Kindred" 'dkindred "Find out more about Darrell Kindred") (insert " <dkindred@cmu.edu>
-	  Long-time bug tracker and exterminator for XEmacs and
-Lucid Emacs.
-	") (about-xref "Andrew Cosgriff" 'ajc "Find out more about Andrew Cosgriff") (insert " <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>
-	  Andrew is one of the XEmacs Webmasters.
-	") (about-xref "Rick Campbell" 'rickc "Find out more about Rick Campbell") (insert " <rickc@lehman.com>
-	  The hacker formerly named Rick Busdiecker, author of ILISP.
-	Anthony Rossini <rossini@stat.sc.edu>
-	  Author of the first XEmacs FAQ, as well as minor priest in
-	  the movement to get every statistician in the world to use
-	  XEmacs for statistical programming and data analysis.
-	  Current development lead for ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics),
-	  a mode and inferior mode for statistical programming and
-	  data analysis for SAS, S, S-PLUS, R, XLispStat; configurable
-	  for nearly any other statistical language/package one might
-	  want.  In spare time, acts as a Ph.D. (bio)statistician for
-	  money and amusement.  Current position: Assistant Professor
-	  of Statistics at the University of South Carolina.
 	Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri@eng.sun.com>
 	  Author of EOS, a package included in the standard XEmacs
 	  distribution that integrates XEmacs with the SPARCworks
 	  development environment from SunPro.  Past lead for XEmacs
 	John Rose <john.rose@sun.com>
 	  Author of many extensions to the `extents' code, including
 	  the initial implementation of `duplicable' properties.
 	Hans Muller <hmuller@eng.sun.com>
-	  Author of the code used to connect XEmacs with ToolTalk,
+	 Author of the code used to connect XEmacs with ToolTalk,
-	  and of an early client of the external Emacs widget.
+	 and of an early client of the external Emacs widget.
-	David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>
-	  David has contributed greatly to the quest to speed up XEmacs.
-	  He is a student in the Computer Systems Laboratory at UCSD.
-	  When he manages to have free time, he usually spends it on 200
-	  mile bicycle rides, learning german or showing people the best
-	  mail & news environment he's found in 10 years.  (That'd be
-	  XEmacs, Gnus and bbdb, of course.)  He can be found at
-	  `druidmuck.egbt.org 4201' at various hours of the day.
-	Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
-	  Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
-	  Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia.  He works part-
-	  time at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines.
-	  In his free time he is helping develop free software (especially
-	  XEmacs, as well as GNU software) and is writing his own -- he has
-	  written a small network mirroring utility Wget, see
-	  ")
-	(about-xref "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/"
-		    'w3-hrvoje "Visit Hrvoje's Wget distribution")
-	(insert "
 	In addition to those just mentioned, the following people have
 	spent a great deal of effort providing feedback, testing beta
 	versions of XEmacs, providing patches to the source code,
 	or doing all of the above.  We couldn't have done it without
 	  Gary Adams <gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
 	  Gennady Agranov <agranov@csa.CS.Technion.Ac.IL>
 	  Mark Allender <allender@vnet.IBM.COM>
 	  Butch Anton <butch@zaphod.uchicago.edu>
 	  Fred Appelman <Fred.Appelman@cv.ruu.nl>
-	  Erik \"The Pope\" Arneson <lazarus@mind.net>
 	  Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
 	  Mike Battaglia <mbattagl@dsccc.com>
+	  Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
 	  Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
 	  Paul Bibilo <peb@delcam.com>
 	  Jan Borchers <job@tk.uni-linz.ac.at>
 	  Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
 	  David P. Boswell <daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com>
 	  Tim Bradshaw <tfb@edinburgh.ac.uk>
 	  Rick Braumoeller <rickb@mti.sgi.com>
 	  Matthew J. Brown <mjb@doc.ic.ac.uk>
 	  Alastair Burt <burt@dfki.uni-kl.de>
+	  Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
 	  Richard Caley <rjc@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk>
 	  Stephen Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com>
 	  Philippe Charton <charton@lmd.ens.fr>
 	  Peter Cheng <peter.cheng@sun.com>
 	  Jin S. Choi <jin@atype.com>
-	  Tomasz J. Cholewo <tjchol01@mecca.spd.louisville.edu>
 	  Serenella Ciongoli <czs00@ladybug.oes.amdahl.com>
 	  Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr>
 	  Andy Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
-	  Nick J. Crabtree <nickc@scopic.com>
 	  Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
-	  Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>
 	  Michael Diers <mdiers@logware.de>
 	  William G. Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
 	  Samuel J. Eaton <samuele@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
 	  Carl Edman <cedman@Princeton.EDU>
 	  Dave Edmondson <davided@sco.com>
-	  Jonathan Edwards <edwards@intranet.com>
 	  Eric Eide <eeide@asylum.cs.utah.edu>
-	  EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
-	  Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>
 	  David Fletcher <frodo@tsunami.com>
 	  Paul Flinders <ptf@delcam.co.uk>
 	  Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
 	  Jerry Frain <jerry@sneffels.tivoli.com>
 	  Benjamin Fried <bf@morgan.com>
 	  Barry Friedman <friedman@bnr.ca>
-	  Noah Friedman  <friedman@splode.com>
 	  Lew Gaiter III <lew@StarFire.com>
-	  Itay Gat <itay@cs.huji.ac.il>
 	  Tim Geisler <Tim.Geisler@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
 	  Dave Gillespie <daveg@synaptics.com>
 	  Christian F. Goetze <cg@bigbook.com>
 	  Wolfgang Grieskamp <wg@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 	  James Grinter <jrg@demon.net>
 	  Markus Gutschke <gutschk@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
 	  Adam Hammer <hammer@cs.purdue.edu>
 	  Magnus Hammerin <magnush@epact.se>
 	  ChangGil Han <cghan@phys401.phys.pusan.ac.kr>
 	  Derek Harding <dharding@lssec.bt.co.uk>
-	  Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net>
 	  John Haxby <J.Haxby@isode.com>
 	  Jareth \"JHod\" Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
 	  Benedikt Heinen <beh@icemark.thenet.ch>
 	  Stephan Herrmann <sh@first.gmd.de>
 	  Charles Hines <chuck_hines@VNET.IBM.COM>
 	  David Hughes <djh@harston.cv.com>
+	  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
 	  Andrew Innes <andrewi@harlequin.co.uk>
 	  Markku Jarvinen <Markku.Jarvinen@simpukka.funet.fi>
 	  Robin Jeffries <robin.jeffries@sun.com>
 	  Philip Johnson <johnson@uhics.ics.Hawaii.Edu>
 	  J. Kean Johnston <jkj@paradigm-sa.com>
-	  Andreas Kaempf <andreas@sccon.com>
 	  Doug Keller <dkeller@vnet.ibm.com>
-	  Hunter Kelly <retnuh@corona>
 	  Gregor Kennedy <gregork@dadd.ti.com>
 	  Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
 	  Yasuhiko Kiuchi <kiuchi@dsp.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
-	  Greg Klanderman <greg@alphatech.com>
-	  Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
-	  Jens Krinke <krinke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
-	  Mats Larsson <Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se>
 	  Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
 	  Simon Leinen <simon@instrumatic.ch>
-	  Carsten Leonhardt <leo@arioch.tng.oche.de>
 	  James LewisMoss <moss@cs.sc.edu>
 	  Mats Lidell <mats.lidell@contactor.se>
 	  Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu>
 	  Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch>
 	  Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com>
 	  Damon Lipparelli <lipp@aa.net>
 	  Hamish Macdonald <hamish@bnr.ca>
-	  Ian MacKinnon <imackinnon@telia.co.uk>
+	  Ian MacKinnon <imac@rd.abs.alcatel.co.uk>
 	  Patrick MacRoberts <macro@hpcobr30.cup.hp.com>
 	  Tonny Madsen <Tonny.Madsen@netman.dk>
 	  Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no>
 	  Steve March <smarch@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
-	  Pekka Marjola <pema@iki.fi>
+	  Simon Marshall <Simon.Marshall@mail.esrin.esa.it>
-	  Simon Marshall <simon@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
 	  Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
 	  Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
 	  Michael Meissner <meissner@osf.org>
 	  David M. Meyer <meyer@ns.uoregon.edu>
 	  Brad Miller <bmiller@cs.umn.edu>
-	  Jeff Miller <jmiller@bay1.bayserve.net>
 	  John Morey <jmorey@crl.com>
 	  Rob Mori <rob.mori@sun.com>
 	  Heiko Muenkel <muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de>
 	  Arup Mukherjee <arup+@cs.cmu.edu>
 	  Colas Nahaboo <Colas.Nahaboo@sophia.inria.fr>
 	  Lynn D. Newton <lynn@ives.phx.mcd.mot.com>
-	  Casey Nielson <knielson@joule.elee.calpoly.edu>
 	  Georg Nikodym <Georg.Nikodym@canada.sun.com>
-	  Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
 	  Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
 	  Joseph J. Nuspl Jr. <nuspl@cc.purdue.edu>
 	  Kim Nyberg <kny@tekla.fi>
 	  David Ofelt <ofelt@getalife.Stanford.EDU>
-	  Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no>
 	  Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@eng.sun.com>
 	  Achim Oppelt <aoppelt@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
-	  Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@op.net>
 	  Sudeep Kumar Palat <palat@idt.unit.no>
 	  Marc Paquette <Marc.Paquette@Softimage.com>
 	  Jens-U H Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
-	  Joel Peterson <tarzan@aosi.com>
 	  Thomas A. Peterson <tap@src.honeywell.com>
 	  Peter Pezaris <pez@dwwc.com>
 	  Tibor Polgar <tlp00@eng.amdahl.com>
-	  Frederic Poncin <fp@info.ucl.ac.be>
 	  E. Rehmi Post <rehmi@asylum.sf.ca.us>
-	  Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>
 	  Paul M Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
 	  Jack Repenning <jackr@sgi.com>
 	  Daniel Rich <drich@cisco.com>
 	  Roland Rieke <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
 	  Russell Ritchie <ritchier@msc.ie>
-	  Roland <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
 	  Mike Russell <mjruss@rchland.vnet.ibm.com>
 	  Jan Sandquist <etxquist@iqa.ericsson.se>
 	  Marty Sasaki <sasaki@spdcc.com>
 	  Mike Scheidler <c23mts@eng.delcoelect.com>
 	  Darrel Schneider <darrel@slc.com>
 	  Hayden Schultz <haydens@ll.mit.edu>
 	  Cotton Seed <cottons@cybercom.net>
 	  Axel Seibert <seiberta@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
 	  Odd-Magne Sekkingstad <oddms@ii.uib.no>
-	  Vinnie Shelton <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
 	  John Shen <zfs60@cas.org>
-	  Murata Shuuichirou <mrt@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
 	  Jeffrey Sparkes <jsparkes@bnr.ca>
 	  Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
 	  Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>
 	  Francois Staes <frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be>
 	  Jason Stewart <jasons@cs.unm.edu>
 	  Rick Tait <rickt@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
 	  James Thompson <thompson@wg2.waii.com>
 	  Morioka Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>
 	  Raymond L. Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
-	  Remek Trzaska <remek@npac.syr.edu>
 	  John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
-	  Juan E. Villacis <jvillaci@cs.indiana.edu>
-	  Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
 	  Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@intrepid.com>
 	  Peter Ware <ware@cis.ohio-state.edu>
 	  Yoav Weiss <yoav@zeus.datasrv.co.il>
 	  Rod Whitby <rwhitby@asc.corp.mot.com>
 	  Rich Williams <rdw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
 	 * A clean interface to the menubar, window-system events, and key
 	   combinations."))
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