[protomyth]

from the e-mail:

  Chuck and I also worked on setting up the first 'anoncvs' to make sure
  noone was ever cut out from 'the language of diffs' again.  I guess
  that was the precursor for the github concept these days :-).  People
  forget, but even FSF was a walled garden at the time -- throwing tar
  files with vague logs over the wall every couple months.