Acknowledgements
Go Ping, you rock! Also, go Common Ground, ekit.com and Bizar Software for letting me implement this system on their time.
Thanks also to the many people on the mailing list, in the sourceforge project and those who just report bugs: Christian Aastorp Thomas Arendsen Hein, Nerijus Baliunas, Benni Bärmann, Anthony Baxter, David Benjamin, Marlon van den Berg, Bo Berglund, Olly Betts, Stéphane Bidoul, Rafal Bisingier, Cameron Blackwood, Jeff Blaine, Duncan Booth, Seb Brezel, J Alan Brogan, Titus Brown, Steve Byan, Brett Cannon, Godefroid Chapelle, Pradip Caulagi, Eli Collins, Roch’e Compaan, Wil Cooley, Joe Cooper, Kelley Dagley, Bruno Damour, Bradley Dean, Toby Dickenson, Paul F. Dubois, Hauke Duden, Eric Earnst, Peter Eisentraut, Andrew Eland, Jeff Epler, Tom Epperly, Tamer Fahmy, Vickenty Fesunov, Hernan Martinez Foffani, Stuart D. Gathman, Martin Geisler, Ajit George, Dirk Geschke, Frank Gibbons, Johannes Gijsbers, Christian Glass, Gus Gollings, Philipp Gortan, Dan Grassi, Robin Green, Jason Grout, Charles Groves, Engelbert Gruber, Bruce Guenter, Tamás Gulácsi, Satchidanand Haridas, Sebastian Harl, Ralf Hemmecke, Juergen Hermann, Tobias Herp, Uwe Hoffmann, Alex Holkner, Tobias Hunger, Werner Hunger, Simon Hyde, Paul Jimenez, Christophe Kalt, Timo Kankare, Brian Kelley, James Kew, Sheila King, Michael Klatt, Bastian Kleineidam, Axel Kollmorgen, Cédric Krier, John Kristensen, Detlef Lannert, Andrey Lebedev, Henrik Levkowetz, David Linke, Martin v. Löwis, Fredrik Lundh, Jochen Maes, Will Maier, Ksenia Marasanova, Georges Martin, Gordon McMillan, Christof Meerwald, John F Meinel Jr, Roland Meister, Ezio Melotti, Ulrik Mikaelsson, John Mitchell, Ramiro Morales, Toni Mueller, Joseph Myers, Stefan Niederhauser, Truls E. Næss, Bryce L Nordgren, Patrick Ohly, “om”, Luke Opperman, Eddie Parker, Will Partain, Timo Paulssen, Benjamin Pollack, Peter Pöml, Ewout Prangsma, Marcus Priesch, Eric S. Raymond, Bernhard Reiter, Roy Rapoport, John P. Rouillard, Luke Ross, Jesse Ruderman, Ollie Rutherfurd, Toby Sargeant, Giuseppe Scelsi, Ralf Schlatterbeck, Gregor Schmid, Florian Schulze, Klamer Schutte, Dougal Scott, Stefan Seefeld, Jouni K Seppänen, Jeffrey P Shell, Dan Shidlovsky, Joel Shprentz, Terrel Shumway, Emil Sit, Alexander Smishlajev, Nathaniel Smith, Leonardo Soto, Maciej Starzyk, Kai Storbeck, Mitchell Surface, anatoly techtonik, Jon C. Thomason Mike Thompson, Hubert Touvet, Michael Twomey, Joseph E. Trent, Karl Ulbrich, Martin Uzak, Darryl VanDorp, J Vickroy, Timothy J. Warren, Jakub Wilk, William (Wilk), Tue Wennerberg, Matt Wilbert, Chris Withers, David Wolever, Cheer Xiao, Milan Zamazal.