Scott Yanoff

Scott Yanoff {born October 20, 1969) is an IT manager and web developer who was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and maintaining the "Yanoff List", an alphabetical list of internet sites.

Career

Yanoff authored the "Inter-Network Mail Guide", a text written in 1997 documenting the different methods of sending email from one network to another. [Cite web |url=http://lib.ru/INTERMET/internetwork-mailguide.txt |title=Inter-network mail guide |accessdate=2008-07-08 |publisher=Library Maxima Moshkova |date=1998-02-12] He was also a co-author of "The Web Site Administrator's Survival Guide" with Jerry Ablan, a book that explains how to set up, administer, care for, and feed your own Web server. Most of this work was accomplished as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, while working as a mainframe/UNIX consultant for the university.Fact|date=April 2007

He has worked for the now-defunct Strong Capital Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and currently works for Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The "Yanoff List"

In the early and mid-1990s, before the use of search engines, the "Yanoff List" became an essential tool for Internet users. The list consisted of Internet sites listed alphabetically and grouped by subject acting as a type of Internet Yellow Pages containing hundreds of FTP, gopher, and Web locations relevant to each subject. Users of the Internet in the early 1990s would eagerly await the latest version of this list.Cite journal |last=Kocher |first=Douglas |url=http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/reviews/index.html |title=Book review - "The Information Revolution" |journal=First Monday |volume=10 |series=10 |date=2005-10-03 |accessdate=2008-07-08] As a minor tribute to his service, a popular Palm-based newsreader, Yanoff, was named after him. [Cite web |url=http://yanoff.sourceforge.net/yanoff/yanoff.html |title=Yanoff 1.5 |accessdate=2008-07-08]

References

External links

* [http://www.yanoff.org/ Yanoff Family Website]
* [http://www.december.com/john/papers/et94.txt Electronic Publishing on the Internet, Case Study - Yanoff List]