Credits

Although the name in the "author" box is James Farmer, SpamPal is very much a community project. Many of the best features were suggested by SpamPal users, most of the bugs have been found and fixed with the aid of SpamPal users, and many users have devoted large amounts of their time to sharing their knowledge, answering questions in the forum, and helping to support this project. Folks, I salute you.

I wish it were otherwise, but I cannot appropriately credit everyone who has helped with the SpamPal project; if I did, this page would be a hundred screenfulls long and nobody would ever read it. However, there were several who have made exceptional contributions, and it is only fair that I name them here. If you've gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me and I haven't acknowledged you here, please don't be offended.

My extra-special thanks to:

First and foremost, all the fine people who devote countless dollars and hours to providing DNSBL services to the Internet community. If SpamPal saves you from a single piece of spam then it's thanks to these people, not to me.

John Davies, for doing huge amounts of beta-testing with early versions and offering to take me to Lords.

Steve Basford and Kindred for creating the pretty logo you can see at the top of every page of this website.

Daniel Friedmann for creating SpamPal.de, a German-language SpamPal website, and doing lots and lots of beta-testing.

Gilles Corlobé for the French SpamPal site spampal.corlobe.tk.

Stephan Slabihoud for writing the RegExFilter regular expressions plugin, which was the most-requested feature in SpamPal's early days.

Steve, Daniel and Stephan earn a second thank-you for their work on creating the SpamPal FAQ.

Steve gets a third thank-you for his great work on the new manual.

James Day, for all his technical advice and work on optimising SpamPal's innards.

Holger Lembke, for helping to mould the SpamPal plugin API and showing immense patience when it wouldn't work with Delphi. Holger is currently working on a spam-filter for Microsoft Outlook called Disruptor OL.

Franklin Werren for running the American mirror site at SpamPal.US.

The folks at Ghost Installer, for donating a free copy of their software.

Jacob Navia, for the lcc-win32 compiler I use to build SpamPal.

Thanks to all the folks who are running download sites for the SpamPal binaries.

And finally, thank you to the following people for translating SpamPal into other languages:

• German - Daniel Friedmann
• French - Jean-Francois Messier, Luc Saint-Elie, Alix Jail and Michael Murat
• Italian - webmaster@pc-facile.com and Marcello Dall'Aglio
• Russian - Boris Gelfandbein, Nikolay Kornev, and Alex Burlutsky