Much of the information contained in this FAQ was culled from the Usenet
newsgroups comp.publish.cdrom.* and the WWW sites mentioned in the previous
sections.  All of the contents, except for a few items in "double quotes",
is original material written by Andy McFadden.

Please remember that the author is NOT a CD-R expert, so sending him mail
won't get you very far.  Please *post* questions to comp.publish.cdrom.*.

The CD-Recordable FAQ was first posted to Usenet on March 2nd, 1996, and
was made available in HTML form on www.cd-info.com on March 24th, 1996.
It moved to www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ on May 28th, 1998, and moved again
to its current home on www.cdrfaq.org on March 3rd, 2001.


This FAQ was written by:

  Andy McFadden                         http://www.fadden.com/

With a great deal of help on the first several drafts from:

  Katherine Cochrane                    http://www.cd-info.com/
  Hal Rottenberg                        hal_rottenberg@---
  Georges Brown                         Georges@---

And information and suggestions -- often in the form of posts to
comp.publish.cdrom.{hardware,software,multimedia} -- from:

[ Due to spammers, e-mail addresses are truncated. ]

  Decius Aiacus                         decius_aiacus@---
  Robert M. Albrecht                    romal@---
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  David Anderson                        C270@---
  Maurice Andres                        lusseau@---
  Pierre-Yves Andri                     PierreYves.Andri@---
  Jeff Arnold                           jarnold@---
  Jeff Aspinall                         aspinall@---
  Evil Azrael                           evil_azrael@---
  Michael Battilana                     mcb@---
  Mario Diéguez B.                      hidrosan@---
  Clive Backham                         clive@---
  Brian Barth                           BrianBarth@---
  Dave Bayer                            bayer@---
  Alex Bell                             abell@---
  Yves Belle-Isle                       BelY@---
  Ricardo Martinez Benesenes            Ricardo.Martinez-Benesenes@---
  Dennis Benjamin                       ocms0001@---
  Mathieu Besson                        Mathieu.Besson@---
  Blaine                                blam1@---
  Jim Blietz                            entexse@---
  Peter 'Pedro' Blum                    peter@---
  Patrick Boen                          patrick.boen@---
  Robert R. Boerner, Jr.                bob973@---
  Eric Jan van den Bogaard              bogaard@---
  Axel Booltink                         ab@---
  Michael Borowiec                      mikebo@---
  David Bouw                            bouw@---
  Scott Bracken                         scott@---
  Sune Bredahl                          sjn@---
  Peter Broadbent                       bent@---
  Simon Brownlee                        simon.brownlee@---
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  Frans de Calonne                      fdecalonne@---
  Chris Cant                            chris@---
  Mirco Caramori                        mirco@---
  Mark Carde                            mcarde@---
  Juan Carlos                           ackman@---
  Carter                                Duplicator@---
  Brian D. Chambers                     bucknife@---
  David Charlap                         shamino@---
  Kenneth Chen                          lore@---
  Michel Cherbuliez                     cherbu@---
  Andrew Chiang                         andrewc@---
  Sean Christy                          seanchr@---
  Dave Chung                            dtchung@---
  Kevin Clark                           clark@---
  Christophe CLERC-RENAUD               clerc@---
  Carlos Coimbra                        ccoimbra@---
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  Mike Dijkema                          m.dijkema@---
  Kurt Dommermuth                       kurtz@---
  Hans Driessen                         marcomlo.pkm@---
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  Bob Drzyzgula                         bob@---
  Russell Duffy                         rad@---
  Pierre Duhem                          duhem@---
  Mark J. Dulcey                        mark@---
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  Lunatic E'Sex                         Luny@---
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  Joe T. Fountain                       gorjoe@---
  Oliver Friedman                       oliverfriedman@---
  Emile Gardette                        egardett@---
  Nick Gawronski                        nickg@---
  gialitt                               gialitt@---
  E. Goldberg                           earl@---
  Gerry Goodrich                        gogood@---
  Colin Gordon                          gordonc@---
  Jac Goudsmit                          http://www.xs4all.nl/~jacg/dcc-faq.html
  Gary E. Grant                         ggrant@---
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  Richard Green                         srcemag@---
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  Jerome H. Whelan                      whelanj@---
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  Julien Wolf                           Julien.Wolf@---
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  Oliver Zechlin                        oliver.zechlin@---
  Zohar Ziv                             zziv@---
  OSTA CD-R Q&A                         http://www.osta.org/

My humble apologies to anyone I've omitted.  ++ATM 20080429

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