diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
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+## Libevent Contributors
+ * Samy Al Bahra
+ * Antony Antony
+ * Jacob Appelbaum
+ * Arno Bakker
+ * Weston Andros Adamson
+ * William Ahern
+ * Ivan Andropov
+ * Sergey Avseyev
+ * Avi Bab
+ * Joachim Bauch
+ * Andrey Belobrov
+ * Gilad Benjamini
+ * Stas Bekman
+ * Denis Bilenko
+ * Julien Blache
+ * Kevin Bowling
+ * Tomash Brechko
+ * Kelly Brock
+ * Ralph Castain
+ * Adrian Chadd
+ * Lawnstein Chan
+ * Shuo Chen
+ * Ka-Hing Cheung
+ * Andrew Cox
+ * Paul Croome
+ * George Danchev
+ * Andrew Danforth
+ * Ed Day
+ * Christopher Davis
+ * Mike Davis
+ * Frank Denis
+ * Antony Dovgal
+ * Mihai Draghicioiu
+ * Alexander Drozdov
+ * Mark Ellzey
+ * Shie Erlich
+ * Leonid Evdokimov
+ * Juan Pablo Fernandez
+ * Christophe Fillot
+ * Mike Frysinger
+ * Remi Gacogne
+ * Artem Germanov
+ * Alexander von Gernler
+ * Diego Giagio
+ * Artur Grabowski
+ * Diwaker Gupta
+ * Kuldeep Gupta
+ * Sebastian Hahn
+ * Dave Hart
+ * Greg Hazel
+ * Nicholas Heath
+ * Michael Herf
+ * Savg He
+ * Mark Heily
+ * Maxime Henrion
+ * Michael Herf
+ * Greg Hewgill
+ * Andrew Hochhaus
+ * Aaron Hopkins
+ * Tani Hosokawa
+ * Jamie Iles
+ * Xiuqiang Jiang
+ * Claudio Jeker
+ * Evan Jones
+ * Marcin Juszkiewicz
+ * George Kadianakis
+ * Makoto Kato
+ * Phua Keat
+ * Azat Khuzhin
+ * Alexander Klauer
+ * Kevin Ko
+ * Brian Koehmstedt
+ * Marko Kreen
+ * Ondřej Kuzník
+ * Valery Kyholodov
+ * Ross Lagerwall
+ * Scott Lamb
+ * Christopher Layne
+ * Adam Langley
+ * Graham Leggett
+ * Volker Lendecke
+ * Philip Lewis
+ * Zhou Li
+ * David Libenzi
+ * Yan Lin
+ * Moshe Litvin
+ * Simon Liu
+ * Mitchell Livingston
+ * Hagne Mahre
+ * Lubomir Marinov
+ * Abilio Marques
+ * Nicolas Martyanoff
+ * Abel Mathew
+ * Nick Mathewson
+ * James Mansion
+ * Nicholas Marriott
+ * Andrey Matveev
+ * Caitlin Mercer
+ * Dagobert Michelsen
+ * Andrea Montefusco
+ * Mansour Moufid
+ * Mina Naguib
+ * Felix Nawothnig
+ * Trond Norbye
+ * Linus Nordberg
+ * Richard Nyberg
+ * Jon Oberheide
+ * John Ohl
+ * Phil Oleson
+ * Alexey Ozeritsky
+ * Dave Pacheco
+ * Derrick Pallas
+ * Tassilo von Parseval
+ * Catalin Patulea
+ * Patrick Pelletier
+ * Simon Perreault
+ * Dan Petro
+ * Pierre Phaneuf
+ * Amarin Phaosawasdi
+ * Ryan Phillips
+ * Dimitre Piskyulev
+ * Pavel Plesov
+ * Jon Poland
+ * Roman Puls
+ * Nate R
+ * Robert Ransom
+ * Balint Reczey
+ * Bert JW Regeer
+ * Nate Rosenblum
+ * Peter Rosin
+ * Maseeb Abdul Qadir
+ * Wang Qin
+ * Alex S
+ * Gyepi Sam
+ * Hanna Schroeter
+ * Ralf Schmitt
+ * Mike Smellie
+ * Steve Snyder
+ * Nir Soffer
+ * Dug Song
+ * Dongsheng Song
+ * Hannes Sowa
+ * Joakim Soderberg
+ * Joseph Spadavecchia
+ * Kevin Springborn
+ * Harlan Stenn
+ * Andrew Sweeney
+ * Ferenc Szalai
+ * Brodie Thiesfield
+ * Jason Toffaletti
+ * Brian Utterback
+ * Gisle Vanem
+ * Bas Verhoeven
+ * Constantine Verutin
+ * Colin Watt
+ * Zack Weinberg
+ * Jardel Weyrich
+ * Jay R. Wren
+ * Zack Weinberg
+ * Mobai Zhang
+ * Alejo
+ * Alex
+ * Taral
+ * propanbutan
+ * masksqwe
+ * mmadia
+ * yangacer
+ * Andrey Skriabin
+ * basavesh.as
+ * billsegall
+ * Bill Vaughan
+ * Christopher Wiley
+ * David Paschich
+ * Ed Schouten
+ * Eduardo Panisset
+ * Jan Heylen
+ * jer-gentoo
+ * Joakim Söderberg
+ * kirillDanshin
+ * lzmths
+ * Marcus Sundberg
+ * Mark Mentovai
+ * Mattes D
+ * Matyas Dolak
+ * Neeraj Badlani
+ * Nick Mathewson
+ * Rainer Keller
+ * Seungmo Koo
+ * Thomas Bernard
+ * Xiao Bao Clark
+ * zeliard
+ * Zonr Chang
+ * Kurt Roeckx
+ * Seven
+ * Simone Basso
+ * Vlad Shcherban
+ * Tim Hentenaar
+ * Breaker
+ * johnsonlee
+ * Philip Prindeville
+ * Vis Virial
+ * Sayan Nandan
+
+If we have forgotten your name, please contact us
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -208,209 +208,5 @@ use and development:
 
 # 3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
-The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
-fixing bugs:
-
- * Samy Al Bahra
- * Antony Antony
- * Jacob Appelbaum
- * Arno Bakker
- * Weston Andros Adamson
- * William Ahern
- * Ivan Andropov
- * Sergey Avseyev
- * Avi Bab
- * Joachim Bauch
- * Andrey Belobrov
- * Gilad Benjamini
- * Stas Bekman
- * Denis Bilenko
- * Julien Blache
- * Kevin Bowling
- * Tomash Brechko
- * Kelly Brock
- * Ralph Castain
- * Adrian Chadd
- * Lawnstein Chan
- * Shuo Chen
- * Ka-Hing Cheung
- * Andrew Cox
- * Paul Croome
- * George Danchev
- * Andrew Danforth
- * Ed Day
- * Christopher Davis
- * Mike Davis
- * Frank Denis
- * Antony Dovgal
- * Mihai Draghicioiu
- * Alexander Drozdov
- * Mark Ellzey
- * Shie Erlich
- * Leonid Evdokimov
- * Juan Pablo Fernandez
- * Christophe Fillot
- * Mike Frysinger
- * Remi Gacogne
- * Artem Germanov
- * Alexander von Gernler
- * Diego Giagio
- * Artur Grabowski
- * Diwaker Gupta
- * Kuldeep Gupta
- * Sebastian Hahn
- * Dave Hart
- * Greg Hazel
- * Nicholas Heath
- * Michael Herf
- * Savg He
- * Mark Heily
- * Maxime Henrion
- * Michael Herf
- * Greg Hewgill
- * Andrew Hochhaus
- * Aaron Hopkins
- * Tani Hosokawa
- * Jamie Iles
- * Xiuqiang Jiang
- * Claudio Jeker
- * Evan Jones
- * Marcin Juszkiewicz
- * George Kadianakis
- * Makoto Kato
- * Phua Keat
- * Azat Khuzhin
- * Alexander Klauer
- * Kevin Ko
- * Brian Koehmstedt
- * Marko Kreen
- * Ondřej Kuzník
- * Valery Kyholodov
- * Ross Lagerwall
- * Scott Lamb
- * Christopher Layne
- * Adam Langley
- * Graham Leggett
- * Volker Lendecke
- * Philip Lewis
- * Zhou Li
- * David Libenzi
- * Yan Lin
- * Moshe Litvin
- * Simon Liu
- * Mitchell Livingston
- * Hagne Mahre
- * Lubomir Marinov
- * Abilio Marques
- * Nicolas Martyanoff
- * Abel Mathew
- * Nick Mathewson
- * James Mansion
- * Nicholas Marriott
- * Andrey Matveev
- * Caitlin Mercer
- * Dagobert Michelsen
- * Andrea Montefusco
- * Mansour Moufid
- * Mina Naguib
- * Felix Nawothnig
- * Trond Norbye
- * Linus Nordberg
- * Richard Nyberg
- * Jon Oberheide
- * John Ohl
- * Phil Oleson
- * Alexey Ozeritsky
- * Dave Pacheco
- * Derrick Pallas
- * Tassilo von Parseval
- * Catalin Patulea
- * Patrick Pelletier
- * Simon Perreault
- * Dan Petro
- * Pierre Phaneuf
- * Amarin Phaosawasdi
- * Ryan Phillips
- * Dimitre Piskyulev
- * Pavel Plesov
- * Jon Poland
- * Roman Puls
- * Nate R
- * Robert Ransom
- * Balint Reczey
- * Bert JW Regeer
- * Nate Rosenblum
- * Peter Rosin
- * Maseeb Abdul Qadir
- * Wang Qin
- * Alex S
- * Gyepi Sam
- * Hanna Schroeter
- * Ralf Schmitt
- * Mike Smellie
- * Steve Snyder
- * Nir Soffer
- * Dug Song
- * Dongsheng Song
- * Hannes Sowa
- * Joakim Soderberg
- * Joseph Spadavecchia
- * Kevin Springborn
- * Harlan Stenn
- * Andrew Sweeney
- * Ferenc Szalai
- * Brodie Thiesfield
- * Jason Toffaletti
- * Brian Utterback
- * Gisle Vanem
- * Bas Verhoeven
- * Constantine Verutin
- * Colin Watt
- * Zack Weinberg
- * Jardel Weyrich
- * Jay R. Wren
- * Zack Weinberg
- * Mobai Zhang
- * Alejo
- * Alex
- * Taral
- * propanbutan
- * masksqwe
- * mmadia
- * yangacer
- * Andrey Skriabin
- * basavesh.as
- * billsegall
- * Bill Vaughan
- * Christopher Wiley
- * David Paschich
- * Ed Schouten
- * Eduardo Panisset
- * Jan Heylen
- * jer-gentoo
- * Joakim Söderberg
- * kirillDanshin
- * lzmths
- * Marcus Sundberg
- * Mark Mentovai
- * Mattes D
- * Matyas Dolak
- * Neeraj Badlani
- * Nick Mathewson
- * Rainer Keller
- * Seungmo Koo
- * Thomas Bernard
- * Xiao Bao Clark
- * zeliard
- * Zonr Chang
- * Kurt Roeckx
- * Seven
- * Simone Basso
- * Vlad Shcherban
- * Tim Hentenaar
- * Breaker
- * johnsonlee
- * Philip Prindeville
- * Vis Virial
-
-If we have forgotten your name, please contact us.
+The [following people](/CONTRIBUTORS.md) have helped with suggestions, ideas,
+code or fixing bugs.