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+It would not be what it is today without the invaluable help of these
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+
+Aaron Crane aaronc@pobox.com
+Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr
+Alexandre Oliva oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
+Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
+Ben Elliston bje@cygnus.com
+Chris Provenzano proven@cygnus.com
+Christian Krone krischan@sql.de
+Dave Adams adams@hpesdwa.fc.hp.com
+Didier Verna verna@inf.enst.fr
+Doug Evans dje@canuck.cygnus.com
+Eric Mumpower nocturne@mit.edu
+Felix Lee flee@cygnus.com
+Gary V. Vaughan gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk
+Gordon Matzigkeit gord@trick.fig.org
+H.J. Lu hjl@gnu.org
+Ian Lance Taylor ian@cygnus.com
+J"orn Rennecke amylaar@cygnus.co.uk
+James A. Lupo lupoja@feynman.ml.wpafb.af.mil
+Jason Molenda jsm@cygnus.com
+Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com
+Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
+Jim Blandy jimb@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu
+Jim Meyering meyering@ascend.com
+Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
+Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
+Ken Pizzini ken@halcyon.com
+Matthew D. Langston langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
+Mike Stump mrs@wrs.com
+Miles Bader miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
+Pavel Roskin pavel_roskin@geocities.com
+Philipp Thomas kthomas@gwdg.de
+Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
+Roland McGrath roland@gnu.org
+Scott Bambrough scottb@corelcomputer.com
+Steven G. Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu
+Stu Grossman grossman@cygnus.com
+Syd Polk spolk@cygnus.com
+Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
+
+Many people are not named here because we lost track of them. We
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