In addition, a new set of discussion forums was set up in October 2007. These replace the older QuickTopic forum , which was overrun by spam. (The spam postings have since been deleted, but further posts to the old forum are permanently disabled.)
Info-ZIP mourns the passing of Phil Katz, who died on 14 April 2000. Phil was one of the great shareware developers of the 1980s, and Info-ZIP owes its very existence to the zipfile format he created. -->
Info-ZIP is a diverse, Internet-based workgroup of about 20 primary authors and over one hundred beta-testers, formed in 1990 as a mailing list hosted by Keith Petersen on the original SimTel site at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.