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To our most generous and merciless review team:
• Rich Adamson, President of Network Partners Inc., for your encyclopedic knowl-
edge of the PSTN, and your tireless willingness to share your experience. Your
generosity, even in the face of daunting challenge, is inspiring to us all. *
• Tilghman Lesher, for an incredibly thorough review of our book, contributing
some much needed time toward Appendixes B and F, in addition to some amazing
new Asterisk applications and functions.
• Andrew Kohlsmith, for helping to write the IMAP voicemail storage section in
Chapter 14.
• David Troy, for providing a technical review, for AstManProxy, and for porting
Asterisk to the Roomba (first PBX to run on a vacuum cleaner!).
• Matthew Gast, fellow O’Reilly author, for reading our book from cover to cover,
and then giving us a comprehensive review, and also for T1, The Definitive Guide.
• Dr. Edward Guy III, for your comprehensive and razor-sharp evaluation of each
and every chapter of the first edition, and for your championing of Asterisk.
• Kristian Kielhofner, President, KrisCompanies, and creator of AstLinux, for the
most excellent AstLinux distribution.
• Russell Bryant, for your rapid and helpful responses to our questions.
• Joshua Colp, for helping us with performance tweaking, and still more questions.
• Kevin Fleming, for raising the bar, and for being a class act, respected (dare we say
loved) by all.
• Brian Capouch, for talking about what is possible, and then going out there and
doing it.
• Stephen Uhler, for championing the port of Zaptel to Solaris, and for giving us
some golden examples.
• Jason Parker, for not being a newb.
• Ekke Loo, for beating up the database chapter.
• Ian Darwin, for tweaking some of the verbiage for us, and for the cherry-red rotary
dial phone (that works with Asterisk!).
• Joel Sisko, CEO, iConverged, for your comprehensive telecom and wiring
knowledge.
Finally, and most importantly, thanks go to Mark Spencer for Gaim (recently renamed
Pidgin, www.pidgin.im), Asterisk, and DUNDi, and for contributing his creations to
the open source community.

* In December of 2006, Rich passed away, as his two-year battle with cancer came to an unfortunate end. Rich
was posting on the Asterisk Users mailing list as late as November of that year. He was giving to the community
right up until the end, which is why we dedicated this book to him.

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