gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly <jloup@chorus.fr>, with
portions written by Mark Adler (inflate.c) and Peter Jannesen
(unlzw.c). The zip deflate format was defined by Phil Katz.
Thanks to those who reported problems and suggested
various improvements.  Here is a partial list of them:

Mark Adler              madler@cco.caltech.edu
Edwin Allum             edwin@csri.toronto.edu
Joseph Arceneaux	jla@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Tim Auckland            tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk
Ken-ichiro Aoki         aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu
David Ascher            da@marlowe.cog.brown.edu
Eric Backus             ericb@lsid.hp.com
Becky A. Badgett        badgett@cs.utexas.edu
Dave Barber             dbarber@apocalypse.bbn.com
Rene Beaulieu           reneb@distri.hydro.qc.ca
Neal Becker             neal@ctd.comsat.com 
Dieter Becker           becker@med-in.uni-sb.de
Nelson H. F. Beebe      beebe@geronimo.math.utah.edu
Jeff Beadles		jeff@onion.rain.com
David J. N. Begley      dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Jim Bernard             jbernard@iola.mines.colorado.edu
Karl Berry              karl@cs.umb.edu
James W. Birdsall       jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
Wayne E. Bouchard       web@paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
Marc Boucher            marc@cam.org
Ola Brahammar           pt90ob@pt.hk-r.se
Dave Brennan            brennan@hal.com
Alan Brown              dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
Rodney Brown            rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
Bruce                   bde@runx.oz.au
Leila Burrell-Davis     leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
Roger Butenuth          butenuth@ira.uka.de
Bud Carlson             bud@isle.pegasus.com
Lim Fung Chai           fclim@i1sin.daq.semi.harris.com
Wes Chalfant            wes@kofax.com
Paul Close              pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Kevin Cosgrove          kevinc@tekig6.pen.tek.com
Stephen J Cowley        s.j.cowley@amtp.cam.ac.uk
Frank Crawford          frank@photon.ansto.gov.au
James R. Crawford       qralston@cislabs.pitt.edu
Lawrence Crowl          crowl@research.cs.orst.edu 
Klaus Dahlenburg        kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de
William E Davidsen      davidsen@ariel.crd.ge.com
Jeff Deifik             jdeifik@isi.edu
Vince DeMarco           vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca
Michael De La Rue       p91152@cplab.physics.edinburgh.ac.uk
Lawrence R. Dodd        dodd@roebling.poly.edu
Matthew Donadio         donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu
Andy Dougherty          andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu
John Eaton              jwe@che.utexas.edu
Brian Edmonds           edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
Paul Eggert             eggert@twinsun.com
Enami                   enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp
Kristoffer Eriksson     ske@pkmab.se
Daniel Eriksson         m91der@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
Rik Faith               faith@cs.unc.edu
Larry Fahnoe            fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org 
Cristian Ferretti       cfs@poincare.mat.puc.cl
Karl-Jose Filler        pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
Per Foreby              perf@efd.lth.se
Alexander Fraser        alex@cs.umb.edu
Noah Friedman		friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Bob Friesenhahn         bfriesen@iphase.com
Andy Fyfe               andy@scp.caltech.edu
Geoff                   geoff@frs.faxon.com
Kaveh R. Ghazi          ghazi@staccato.rutgers.edu
Torbjorn Granlund       tege@sics.se
Carl Greco              cgreco@parrot.creighton.edu
Bruno Haible            haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Junio Hamano            junio@shadow.twinsun.com
Harald Hanche-Olsen     hanche@ams.sunysb.edu
Darrel R. Hankerson     hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
Ruediger Helsch         ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
Mark C. Henderson       mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca
Karl Heuer              karl@kelp.boston.ma.us
Thomas Hiller           hiller@fzi.de
Eiji Hirai              hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu
Kjetil Torgrim Homme    kjetilho@ifi.uio.no
Preston Hunt            gt5708a@prism.gatech.edu
Shane C Hutchins        sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu
Hutch			hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Lester Ingber		ingber@alumni.caltech.edu
Ken Ishii               ishii@sni-usa.com
Per Steinar Iversen     iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Michal Jaegermann       ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
Brian Jones             brianj@skat.usc.edu
Denny de Jonge          witaddj@dutrex.tudelft.nl
Arne H. Juul            arnej@lise.unit.no
Dana Jacobsen           jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
Peter Jannesen		peter@ncs.nl
Sarantos Kapidakis      sarantos%manteion@ics.forth.gr
Amir J. Katz            amir@matis.ingr.com
Steve Kelem             kelem@castor.xilinx.com
Randy Kirchhof          rkk@posms.aus.tx.us
Ned Kittlitz            kittlitz@seagoon.sw.stratus.com
Pete Klammer            pklammer@ouray.denver.colorado.edu
Fritz Kleemann          kleemann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
Tom Kloos               tk@sequent.com
Carsten Koch            carsten.koch@icem.de
Winfried Koenig         win@in.rhein-main.de
Steph Konigsdorfer      s.konigsdorfer@frmy.bull.fr
Michael D. Lawler       mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Kevin Layer             layer@franz.com
Howard D. Leadmon       howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org
Alexander Lehmann       alex@hal.rhein-main.de
Simon Leinen            simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
Hugues Leroy            hugues.leroy@irisa.fr 
Charles Levert          charles@aramis.comm.polymtl.ca
Torbj|rn Lindh          toobii@elixir.e.kth.se
David R. Linn		drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Antonio Lioy            cat@athena.polito.it
Jamie Lokier            u90jl@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
David J. MacKenzie	djm@eng.umd.edu
John R MacMillan        john@chance.gts.org
Ron Male                male@eso.mc.xerox.com
Steeve McCauley         steeve@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca
Tod McQuillin           mcquill@ccit05.duq.edu
Tye McQueen             tye@spillman.com
Bernd Melchers          melchers@chemie.fu-berlin.de
Jason Merrill           jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
Dean S. Messing         deanm@medulla.labs.tek.com
Luke Mewburn            zak@rmit.edu.au
Jim Meyering		meyering@cs.utexas.edu 
Frederic Miserey        miserey@laguna.ics.uci.edu
Marcel J.E. Mol         marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Chris Moore             moore@src.bae.co.uk
Helmut Muelner          hmuelner@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at
Urban D Mueller         umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Timothy Murphy          tim@maths.tcd.ie
Greg Naber              greg@squally.halcyon.com
Karl L. Noell           noell@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.dbp.de
Arthur David Olson      ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
Piet van Oostrum        piet@cs.ruu.nl
Rafael R. Pappalardo    rafapa@obelix.cica.es 
Hal Peterson            hrp@pecan.cray.com
Pascal Petit            petit@cadillac.ibp.fr
Bruno Pillard		bp@chorus.fr
Franc,ois Pinard        pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
Jay Pinkos              pinkos@butyng.bu.edu
Thomas Plass            thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Mike Polo               mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
Francesco Potorti       pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
David Purves            purves@apogee.com
Andreas Raab            ar@nvmr.robin.de
Eric S. Raymond         esr@snark.thyrsus.com
Klaus Reimann           kr@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Michael Rendell         michael@mercury.cs.mun.ca
Roland B Roberts        roberts@nsrl31.nsrl.rochester.edu
Kevin Rodgers           kevin@rolling-stone.den.mmc.com
Kai Uwe Rommel          rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Paul Rubin              phr@america.telebit.com
Wolfgang Rupprecht      wolfgang@wsrcc.com
Jonathan Ryshpan        jon@amito.hitachi.com
Paul A Sand             pas@unh.edu
Tony Sanders            sanders@bsdi.com
Mike Sangrey            mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Niimi Satoshi           a01309@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Marc Schaefer           sysadm@alphanet.ch
Andreas Schwab          schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Eric Schenk             schenk@cs.toronto.edu
Rick Sladkey            jrs@world.std.com
Daniel L Smith          dls@autodesk.com
Fred Smith              fredex%fcshome@merk.merk.com
Paul Southworth         pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Rob Spencer             robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
Richard Stallman	rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Carsten Steger          carsten.steger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Ed Sznyter              ews@babel.babel.com
Hideaki Tanabe          arctanx@iyeyasu.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Andrew Telford          ajt@peregrin.resmel.bhp.com.au
Glenn E. Thobe          thobe@getunx.info.com
Kei Thomsen             kt@keihh.hanse.de
Karsten Thygesen        karthy@dannug.dk
Mark Towfiq             towfiq@microdyne.com
Jeff Treece             treece@sabbagh.com
Oliver Trepte           oliver@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se
Stephane Tsacas         slt@is21.isoft.fr
Stephen Tweedie         sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
Sotiris Vassilopoulos   vassilopoulos@virginia.edu
Pedro A. M. Vazquez     vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br
Arjan de Vet            devet@win.tue.nl
Vadim V. Vlasov         vvlasov@inucres.msk.su
Eduard Vopicka          eduard.vopicka@vse.cs 
Theo Vosse              vosse@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
Marcel Waldvogel        marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
Stephen J. Walick       steve@nshore.org
Gray Watson		gray@antaire.com
Scott Weikart           scott@igc.apc.org
Ivo Welch               iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
Gijsb. Wiesenekker      wiesenecker@sara.nl 
Wietze van Winden       wietze@swi.psy.uva.nl
Larry W. Virden         lwv26@cas.org 
Bill Wohler             wohler@sap-ag.de
Jamie Zawinski          jwz@lucid.com
Christos Zoulas         christos@deshaw.com
