53 files changed, 65 insertions, 123 deletions

diff --git a/math/ruby-algebra/pkg-descr b/math/ruby-algebra/pkg-descr
index 184f6c6e8d80..b92fd8b479ef 100644
--- a/math/ruby-algebra/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/ruby-algebra/pkg-descr
@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@ Things Ruby/Algebra offers include the following:
 	o Creating residue class fields
 	o Operating matrices
 
-Author:	Shin-ichiro HARA <sinara@blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp>
-WWW:	http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/~sinara/ruby/math/
+WWW: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/~sinara/ruby/math/
diff --git a/math/rubygem-numru-misc/pkg-descr b/math/rubygem-numru-misc/pkg-descr
index 8b712d3ac903..04b76ed5e970 100644
--- a/math/rubygem-numru-misc/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/rubygem-numru-misc/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Miscellaneous functions and classes to facilitate programming.
 Misc requires NArray, a multi-dimensional numeric array class for ruby.
 
-Author:	Takeshi Horinouchi <horinout _at_ ees.hokudai.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/numru-misc/
diff --git a/math/rubygem-rb-gsl/pkg-descr b/math/rubygem-rb-gsl/pkg-descr
index 1e3984128a68..cffa8284001a 100644
--- a/math/rubygem-rb-gsl/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/rubygem-rb-gsl/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,4 @@ Ruby/GSL is a Ruby extension library for GSL (GNU Scientific Library),
 which provides a number of functions and methods for numerical
 computing in Ruby.
 
-Author: Yoshiki Tsunesada <yoshiki@cr.phys.titech.ac.jp>,
-        David MacMahon, 
-        Jens Wille
 WWW: https://rubygems.org/gems/rb-gsl
diff --git a/math/truthtable/pkg-descr b/math/truthtable/pkg-descr
index 9d85a4c96bee..583152e69f36 100644
--- a/math/truthtable/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/truthtable/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ TruthTable is a truth table generator that does the dirty work for you.
 This Java program handles the following operations: Not, And, Or, XOR,
 Implication, and the Biconditional.
 
-Author: Greg Slepak
-WWW:	http://www.kinostudios.com/truthtable.php
+WWW: http://www.kinostudios.com/truthtable.php
diff --git a/misc/bogosort/pkg-descr b/misc/bogosort/pkg-descr
index 37f1b14c8441..992339862021 100644
--- a/misc/bogosort/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/bogosort/pkg-descr
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ A quote from the Jargon File 'bogo-sort' entry:
      worst-case running time. Compare _bogus_, _brute force_,
      _lasherism_...
 
-Author: Ulrik Haugen <qha@lysator.liu.se>
 WWW: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~qha/bogosort/
diff --git a/misc/cloc/pkg-descr b/misc/cloc/pkg-descr
index 9a9c8e62ebb2..a9b8e4bd6e0e 100644
--- a/misc/cloc/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/cloc/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ code in many programming languages.
 cloc contains code from David Wheeler's SLOCCount and Damian Conway and
 Abigail's Perl module Regexp::Common. 
 
-Author: Al Danial <al.danial@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://cloc.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/misc/delay/pkg-descr b/misc/delay/pkg-descr
index 6425b7946846..52e152539f25 100644
--- a/misc/delay/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/delay/pkg-descr
@@ -17,5 +17,3 @@ It allows for short, long, and customized messages for the display of
 the time remaining. 
 - example of output : delay -v until 4 pm tomorrow
 		      Time Remaining: 1 days, 07:51:39.
-
-Author: Tom Rothamel <tom@onegeek.org>
diff --git a/misc/dvorak7min/pkg-descr b/misc/dvorak7min/pkg-descr
index 7bcb3dfcbe6d..3f1c074c76c0 100644
--- a/misc/dvorak7min/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/dvorak7min/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ lessons, color for easy visual feedback, and a real time characters per
 second display. It's called 7min because it originally was a personal
 hack written in 7 min.
 
-Author: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@ragnar-hojland.com>
 WWW: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dvorak7min.html
diff --git a/misc/imerge/pkg-descr b/misc/imerge/pkg-descr
index a8c3a8719b98..942d7c506183 100644
--- a/misc/imerge/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/imerge/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ interactively.
 This utility was (obviously) inspired by the mergemaster utility in
 hope of using part of its functionality stand-alone.
 
-Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
-WWW:	https://github.com/knu/imerge
+WWW: https://github.com/knu/imerge
diff --git a/misc/inplace/pkg-descr b/misc/inplace/pkg-descr
index 1c112d9fb9c5..e5373c255fa2 100644
--- a/misc/inplace/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/inplace/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ Examples:
     # Process image files preserving time and taking backup files:
     inplace -t -b.orig 'convert -rotate 270 -resize 50%% %1 %2' *.jpg
 
-Author: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
-WWW:	http://akinori.org/#inplace
+WWW: http://akinori.org/#inplace
diff --git a/misc/mmv/pkg-descr b/misc/mmv/pkg-descr
index 478b71fc6b9a..7b5ea3672944 100644
--- a/misc/mmv/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/mmv/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ of wildcard patterns. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without
 any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with
 existing filenames or with other target names.
 
-Author: Vladimir Lanin <vlad@brm.com>
 WWW: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/mmv 
diff --git a/misc/pantry/pkg-descr b/misc/pantry/pkg-descr
index a207263c7a34..bd0aed06025e 100644
--- a/misc/pantry/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/pantry/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ configuration file. You can also add nutrient information for custom
 foods (though Pantry includes nutrient information for over 7,000 foods
 to get you started) and recipes using XML. 
 
-Author: Omari Norman <massysett at users.sourceforge.net>
 WWW: http://pantry.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/misc/phraze/pkg-descr b/misc/phraze/pkg-descr
index 27865f96fc73..01d4db637d48 100644
--- a/misc/phraze/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/phraze/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-Phraze takes a telephone number and produces a list of combinations of 
-valid words that can be derived from it, using the keypad of a US phone.  
+Phraze takes a telephone number and produces a list of combinations of
+valid words that can be derived from it, using the keypad of a US phone.
 
 Requires ruby.
 
-Author:		Jeff Pace <jpace@incava.org>
-WWW:		http://phraze.sourceforge.net/
+WWW: http://phraze.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/misc/rpl/pkg-descr b/misc/rpl/pkg-descr
index dafea506841f..22459682c12d 100644
--- a/misc/rpl/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/rpl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-rpl is a Unix text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new 
-strings in multiple text files. It can scan directories recursively and 
-replace strings in all files found. The search can be limited to files 
+rpl is a Unix text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new
+strings in multiple text files. It can scan directories recursively and
+replace strings in all files found. The search can be limited to files
 with certain filename suffixes (e.g. '.html', '.c', etc.).
 
-Author:		Joe Laffey <software@laffeycomputer.com>
-WWW:		http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html
+WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html
diff --git a/misc/sssnips/pkg-descr b/misc/sssnips/pkg-descr
index 15b8bbba6cad..d043b95b234d 100644
--- a/misc/sssnips/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/sssnips/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ From sssnips's README file:
   This is a collection of simple - and, in a couple of cases,
   simply trivial - shell scripts that I use in my day-to-day work.
 
-Author:	Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
 WWW: http://devel.ringlet.net/misc/sssnips/
diff --git a/multimedia/devede/pkg-descr b/multimedia/devede/pkg-descr
index 6a8802a6623a..88f4c2fe9ff9 100644
--- a/multimedia/devede/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/devede/pkg-descr
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only
 needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager and MKisofs (well, and
 Python 2.4, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.
 
-WWW:	http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
+WWW: http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
diff --git a/multimedia/kaffeine/pkg-descr b/multimedia/kaffeine/pkg-descr
index 28215e55833a..2bce6f87bd27 100644
--- a/multimedia/kaffeine/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/kaffeine/pkg-descr
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ kaffeine is a xine-based multimedia player for KDE.
 * Support for saving screenshots as PNG, BMP or XBM
 * The ability to prevent the screensaver from activating OSD Titles
 
-Author:	Juergen Kofler <kaffeine@gmx.net>
-WWW:	http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/
+WWW: http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/multimedia/mkvtoolnix/pkg-descr b/multimedia/mkvtoolnix/pkg-descr
index be7abf280b93..3533d6e80acb 100644
--- a/multimedia/mkvtoolnix/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/mkvtoolnix/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ MKVtoolnix will evolve into a set of tools to create, alter and
 inspect Matroska files under Linux and other Unices, just what the
 OGMtools do for the OGM format.
 
-Author: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
 WWW: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
diff --git a/multimedia/ogmtools/pkg-descr b/multimedia/ogmtools/pkg-descr
index e3e7581013af..9f56f9ca348a 100644
--- a/multimedia/ogmtools/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/ogmtools/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ and Vorbis audio from Ogg files. The resulting files can be played
 back with mplayer or with the OggDS Direct Show filters under
 Windows.
 
-Author: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
 WWW: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/
diff --git a/multimedia/subtitleoffsetmodifier/pkg-descr b/multimedia/subtitleoffsetmodifier/pkg-descr
index 1e40b2413450..a864a589ae58 100644
--- a/multimedia/subtitleoffsetmodifier/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/subtitleoffsetmodifier/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Script that allows to change the timestamp of a Subtitle file.
 
-Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org>
 WWW: http://thomas.enix.org/SubtitleOffsetModificator
diff --git a/multimedia/vcdimager/pkg-descr b/multimedia/vcdimager/pkg-descr
index febb178ad5a6..060c6df3c102 100644
--- a/multimedia/vcdimager/pkg-descr
+++ b/multimedia/vcdimager/pkg-descr
@@ -14,6 +14,5 @@ Features
 - Extraction of Video CD's into files (incl. the PBC information)
 - Use of XML for the description of Video CD's
 
-Author: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
 WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/
      http://www.vcdimager.org/
diff --git a/net-im/pidgin-rhythmbox/pkg-descr b/net-im/pidgin-rhythmbox/pkg-descr
index 717c75b9c62e..c10b4ede7f33 100644
--- a/net-im/pidgin-rhythmbox/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-im/pidgin-rhythmbox/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ status message with the currently playing music in Rhythmbox. If the artist and
 title are known, it will also attempt to create a link to the song's lyrics by
 using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature.
 
-Author:	Jon Oberheide
 WWW: http://jon.oberheide.org/projects/pidgin-rhythmbox/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/arpwatch/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/arpwatch/pkg-descr
index 7362aec69427..87e59568d0d5 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/arpwatch/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/arpwatch/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This package contains tools that monitors ethernet activity and
 maintains a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It also reports
 certain changes via email.
 
-Author: arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov
 WWW: http://ee.lbl.gov/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/pkg-descr
index 0f071ab13452..5c4f7b19af6c 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ bsnmp-ucd is a module for bsnmpd which allows you to get memory, load
 average, cpu utilization and other system statistics. It implements parts
 of UCD-SNMP-MIB for this.
 
-Author: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://bsnmp-ucd.googlecode.com/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/cdpr/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/cdpr/pkg-descr
index 539148b8caf0..058f19db152c 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/cdpr/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/cdpr/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ help network/system administrators find out about the equipment that i
 a machine is connected to. This is done by capturing and decoding a 
 Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packet.
 
-Author: Lance O'Connor <lance@monkeymental.com>
 WWW: http://www.monkeymental.com/nuke/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/grepcidr/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/grepcidr/pkg-descr
index f5ef5542fffd..1b0cf6f603de 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/grepcidr/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/grepcidr/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ grepcidr has endless uses in network software, including: mail
 filtering and processing, network security, log analysis, and many
 custom applications.
 
-Author:	Jem Berkes
 WWW: http://www.pc-tools.net/unix/grepcidr/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/ipv6calc/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/ipv6calc/pkg-descr
index 7c39ca4a6d95..09c222674d86 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/ipv6calc/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/ipv6calc/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ Intention:
 * This utility can be used by the IPv6 enabled initscripts for
   better duplicate address detection on setup of IPv6 addresses.
 
-Author: Peter Bieringer <pb (at) bieringer.de>
 WWW: http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/ipv6calc.html
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nagios-certexp-plugin/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nagios-certexp-plugin/pkg-descr
index f5a9a9bae2f6..abda99e9bd89 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nagios-certexp-plugin/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nagios-certexp-plugin/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ mechanisms are not supported). The plugin is written in Perl, should work with
 the embedded Perl interpreter (not tested though) and requires Net::SSLeay and
 Date::Manip to be installed on the Nagios host.
 
-Author: Holger Weiss <holger@CIS.FU-Berlin.DE>
 WWW: http://www.jhweiss.de/software/nagios.html
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nagios-check_netsnmp/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nagios-check_netsnmp/pkg-descr
index 624e5e087b9a..fe5aa56749d8 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nagios-check_netsnmp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nagios-check_netsnmp/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,3 @@ A plugin for Nagios to query common NetSNMP-exported information:
 -- swap status;
 -- load averages;
 -- anything else exported via NetSNMP's exec or extend directives.
-
-Author: trtrmitya@gmail.com
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nagios-check_relayd_status/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nagios-check_relayd_status/pkg-descr
index 6cc4699b4630..389078968219 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nagios-check_relayd_status/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nagios-check_relayd_status/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 A plugin for Nagios to query relayd status. It returns a warning if not
 all hosts in a table are up and a critical if a table and/or redirect
 is totally down.
-
-Author: Daniel Werdermann <dwerdermann@web.de>
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nagios-spamd-plugin/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nagios-spamd-plugin/pkg-descr
index ae0ce743ad6d..5d716b1e6857 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nagios-spamd-plugin/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nagios-spamd-plugin/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-check_spamd is a Nagios plugin for checking SpamAssassins SPAMD. It's written 
-in Perl, should work with the embedded Perl interpreter (not tested though), 
-does not require spamc to be installed on the Nagios host and has no other 
+check_spamd is a Nagios plugin for checking SpamAssassins SPAMD. It's written
+in Perl, should work with the embedded Perl interpreter (not tested though),
+does not require spamc to be installed on the Nagios host and has no other
 prerequisites.
 
-Author:	Holger Weiss <holger@CIS.FU-Berlin.DE>
-WWW:	http://www.jhweiss.de/code.html
+WWW: http://www.jhweiss.de/code.html
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nsca/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nsca/pkg-descr
index 998e2b444eb5..9a83587b1497 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nsca/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nsca/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 The Nagios Service Check Acceptor (NSCA) is used to send service check
 results to a central Nagios server. This consists of the "nsca" daemon
-which runs on the main Nagios server and accepts results and the 
+which runs on the main Nagios server and accepts results and the
 "send_nsca" client which is used to send results to the server.
 
-Author:	Ethan Galstad
-WWW:	http://www.nagios.org/
+WWW: http://www.nagios.org/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/nsca27/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/nsca27/pkg-descr
index 998e2b444eb5..9a83587b1497 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/nsca27/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/nsca27/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 The Nagios Service Check Acceptor (NSCA) is used to send service check
 results to a central Nagios server. This consists of the "nsca" daemon
-which runs on the main Nagios server and accepts results and the 
+which runs on the main Nagios server and accepts results and the
 "send_nsca" client which is used to send results to the server.
 
-Author:	Ethan Galstad
-WWW:	http://www.nagios.org/
+WWW: http://www.nagios.org/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/py-yapsnmp/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/py-yapsnmp/pkg-descr
index 4e3efe1ee8fe..b33da89675f4 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/py-yapsnmp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/py-yapsnmp/pkg-descr
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ level python module removing all the complexity out of dealing with SNMP.
 * Offers a very high level interface, allowing easy SNMP integration into
   your code.
 
-Author:	Yves Perrenoud
-WWW:	http://yapsnmp.sourceforge.net/
+WWW: http://yapsnmp.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/rate/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/rate/pkg-descr
index bf03312df201..58d8005f6b20 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/rate/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/rate/pkg-descr
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-Rate is a swiss-army-knife command-line traffic analysis tool, designed 
-to help a network administrator to see what is happening at a router at 
-the moment. Unlike tcpdump(1), rate uses statistical and stream-oriented 
-methods, and will never produce an output stream at a speed beyond human 
-perception. The output is less accurate, however. Rate features four 
-different operating modes, designed to perform the following tasks: 
-estimating overall traffic rates, determining nodes generating the 
-highest traffic, determining connections and flows generating the highest 
+Rate is a swiss-army-knife command-line traffic analysis tool, designed
+to help a network administrator to see what is happening at a router at
+the moment. Unlike tcpdump(1), rate uses statistical and stream-oriented
+methods, and will never produce an output stream at a speed beyond human
+perception. The output is less accurate, however. Rate features four
+different operating modes, designed to perform the following tasks:
+estimating overall traffic rates, determining nodes generating the
+highest traffic, determining connections and flows generating the highest
 traffic and extracting strings from packets.
 
-Author:	<mtg@elsat.net.pl>
 WWW: http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/
diff --git a/net-mgmt/remarp/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/remarp/pkg-descr
index 5601f4ecb267..2cdbeffedbe1 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/remarp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-mgmt/remarp/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from  remote devices using SNMP and 
-checks them  for changes. It is very useful for detecting  problems and 
-malicious users in networks  with routers that don't support static 
-ARP tables.  
+Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from  remote devices using SNMP and
+checks them  for changes. It is very useful for detecting  problems and
+malicious users in networks  with routers that don't support static
+ARP tables.
 
-Author:	melnik <melnik@raccoon.kiev.ua>
 WWW: http://www.raccoon.kiev.ua/projects/remarp/
diff --git a/net-p2p/bitflu/pkg-descr b/net-p2p/bitflu/pkg-descr
index 11a849f35326..36fe0ddfbc6e 100644
--- a/net-p2p/bitflu/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-p2p/bitflu/pkg-descr
@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ maybe even OSX.
 * Non-Threading/(almost)Non-Forking design: All connections are handled
   in non-blocking state using a dynamic select loop
 
-Author: Adrian Ulrich <adrian@blinkenlights.ch>
 WWW: http://bitflu.workaround.ch/
diff --git a/net-p2p/gkremldk/pkg-descr b/net-p2p/gkremldk/pkg-descr
index 8cde8eea867b..8b4d006865d1 100644
--- a/net-p2p/gkremldk/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-p2p/gkremldk/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Gkremldk is a GKrellM plugin showing current mldonkey donwload/upload
 rate and to set the maximum of these.
 
-Author: Christophe Badoit <tof@tof2k.com>
 WWW: http://www.tof2k.com/gkremldk/
diff --git a/net/apinger/pkg-descr b/net/apinger/pkg-descr
index abae9af965d9..d307944a5afb 100644
--- a/net/apinger/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/apinger/pkg-descr
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-Alarm Pinger (apinger) is a little tool which monitors various IP 
-devices by simple ICMP echo requests. Unlike most Perl or shell 
-script tools, it does not spawn processes or use much CPU time, 
-and is ideal for when one wants continuous monitoring and fast 
-response upon target failure. It is written in C and supports both 
+Alarm Pinger (apinger) is a little tool which monitors various IP
+devices by simple ICMP echo requests. Unlike most Perl or shell
+script tools, it does not spawn processes or use much CPU time,
+and is ideal for when one wants continuous monitoring and fast
+response upon target failure. It is written in C and supports both
 IPv4 and IPv6.
 
-Author: Jacek Konieczny <jajcus@pld.org.pl>
-WWW: http://www.bnet.pl/~jajcus/apinger/	
+WWW: http://www.bnet.pl/~jajcus/apinger/
diff --git a/net/bounce/pkg-descr b/net/bounce/pkg-descr
index 02c53e1e920a..fd6044660ed7 100644
--- a/net/bounce/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/bounce/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 A little program to bounce tcp connections to another machine/port.
 By default it listens on port 1523.
 
-Author: Roger Espel Llima
 WWW: http://www.iagora.com/~espel/hacks.html
diff --git a/net/bsdproxy/pkg-descr b/net/bsdproxy/pkg-descr
index cdfac87ed08e..d3b10a5e002f 100644
--- a/net/bsdproxy/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/bsdproxy/pkg-descr
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 bsdproxy is a generic, event-driven proxy designed specifically for the
 BSD platform.  It uses the kqueue()/kevent() system calls to determine
 when to relay data from one side of the connection to the other.  It also
-uses GLib (http://www.gtk.org) data structures and memory management 
-functions to optimize steady-state performance (minimize unnecessary 
-memory allocation/deallocation).  
+uses GLib (http://www.gtk.org) data structures and memory management
+functions to optimize steady-state performance (minimize unnecessary
+memory allocation/deallocation).
 
 bsdproxy has been used to proxy HTTP, HTTPS, telnet, and mysql without
-any problems.  It should be able to serve as a transparent proxy for 
+any problems.  It should be able to serve as a transparent proxy for
 anything over a TCP/IP connection.
 
-Author:		Dave Bailey <dave@daveb.net>
-WWW: 	http://daveb.net/bsdproxy/
+WWW: http://daveb.net/bsdproxy/
diff --git a/net/cvsync/pkg-descr b/net/cvsync/pkg-descr
index 08399cffaa66..0e1d6498ce6c 100644
--- a/net/cvsync/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/cvsync/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ cvsync is a portable CVS repository synchronization utility,
 written in C and POSIX pthread library, released under BSD license.
 It is very similar to CVSup but not compatible with it.
 
-Author:	MAEKAWA Masahide <maekawa at cvsync dot org>
 WWW: http://www.cvsync.org/
diff --git a/net/dhcpdump/pkg-descr b/net/dhcpdump/pkg-descr
index 45527a5ef5de..4a9edc9962e4 100644
--- a/net/dhcpdump/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/dhcpdump/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This command parses the output of tcpdump to display the dhcp-packets
 for easier checking and debugging.
 
-Author: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
 WWW: http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php
diff --git a/net/dhcprelay/pkg-descr b/net/dhcprelay/pkg-descr
index e4ef9fcf26eb..c931f568bdf7 100644
--- a/net/dhcprelay/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/dhcprelay/pkg-descr
@@ -23,5 +23,4 @@ Why not the ISC DHCP Relay Agent?
   which VPN back to the central network), the answers are not picked
   up by the RA.
 
-Author: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
 WWW: http://www.mavetju.org/networking/
diff --git a/net/e169-stats/pkg-descr b/net/e169-stats/pkg-descr
index 36ac2420179c..b21e4ca531ce 100644
--- a/net/e169-stats/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/e169-stats/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 Curses based overview for the statistics generated by the Huawei
 E169 3G USB modem. Please note that this requires at least FreeBSD
 7.2 because it makes use of the u3g(4) driver.
-
-Author: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
diff --git a/net/freebsd-tftp/pkg-descr b/net/freebsd-tftp/pkg-descr
index d73244644e08..fd7b58e8dba9 100644
--- a/net/freebsd-tftp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/freebsd-tftp/pkg-descr
@@ -33,20 +33,18 @@ RFC2348 - TFTP Blocksize Option
 RFC2349 - TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options
 RFC3617 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme and Applicability
           Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
- 
+
 It supports the following unofficial TFTP Options as described at
 http://www.compuphase.com/tftp.htm:
- 
-blksize2 - Block size restricted to powers of 2, excluding protocol headers     
-rollover - Block counter roll-over (roll back to zero or to one)  
- 
+
+blksize2 - Block size restricted to powers of 2, excluding protocol headers
+rollover - Block counter roll-over (roll back to zero or to one)
+
 From the tftp program point of view the following things are changed:
-  
+
 - New commands: "blocksize", "blocksize2", "rollover" and "options"
-- Development features: "debug" and "packetdrop" 
-  
-If you try this tftp/tftpd implementation, please let me know if 
-it works (or doesn't work) and against which implementaion so I can 
-get a list of confirmed working systems.
+- Development features: "debug" and "packetdrop"
 
-Author: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>
+If you try this tftp/tftpd implementation, please let me know if
+it works (or doesn't work) and against which implementaion so I can
+get a list of confirmed working systems.
diff --git a/net/ipsvd/pkg-descr b/net/ipsvd/pkg-descr
index 3dbba038c7c6..18ed9b9dd858 100644
--- a/net/ipsvd/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ipsvd/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ipsvd is a set of internet protocol service daemons. 
+ipsvd is a set of internet protocol service daemons.
 It currently includes a TCP/IP service daemon, and a UDP/IP service daemon.
 
 An internet protocol service (ipsv) daemon waits for incoming connections
@@ -18,5 +18,4 @@ from the runit package, or supervise from the daemontools package.
 
 ipsvd can be used to run services normally run by inetd, xinetd, or tcpserver.
 
-Author:	Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
-WWW:	http://smarden.org/ipsvd/
+WWW: http://smarden.org/ipsvd/
diff --git a/net/jags/pkg-descr b/net/jags/pkg-descr
index 3b0d366506cd..846311ae9c6a 100644
--- a/net/jags/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/jags/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ program does the parsing with help from shell- scripts. This means
 that it's easy to change the functionality of the program and you
 can edit this without touching the source-code.
 
-Author: Daniel Sundberg <dansun-8@student.luth.se>
 WWW: http://jags.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/net/nos-ttb/pkg-descr b/net/nos-ttb/pkg-descr
index 6c8d55c97e2e..e828031da2d8 100644
--- a/net/nos-ttb/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/nos-ttb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ttb is a program to browse Teletekstpages from http://teletekst.nos.nl/
 
-Author: Dirk-Jan Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
 WWW: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/ttb/
diff --git a/net/ntlmaps/pkg-descr b/net/ntlmaps/pkg-descr
index 5ab3e9b06644..1a4670a4e73a 100644
--- a/net/ntlmaps/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ntlmaps/pkg-descr
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-NTLM Authorization Proxy Server (APS) is a proxy software that allows you 
-to authenticate via an MS Proxy Server using the proprietary NTLM protocol. 
-Since version 0.9.5 APS has an ability to behave as a standalone proxy server 
-and authenticate http clients at web servers using NTLM method. It can change 
-arbitrary values in your client's request header so that those requests will 
-look like they were created by MS IE. 
+NTLM Authorization Proxy Server (APS) is a proxy software that allows you
+to authenticate via an MS Proxy Server using the proprietary NTLM protocol.
+Since version 0.9.5 APS has an ability to behave as a standalone proxy server
+and authenticate http clients at web servers using NTLM method. It can change
+arbitrary values in your client's request header so that those requests will
+look like they were created by MS IE.
 
 WWW: http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-Multicast/pkg-descr b/net/p5-IO-Socket-Multicast/pkg-descr
index d1f84ef47068..a27d7f48f1c3 100644
--- a/net/p5-IO-Socket-Multicast/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-Multicast/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ system that supports multicasting), you will be able to receive incoming
 multicast transmissions and generate your own outgoing multicast
 packets.
 
-Author: Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>
 WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Socket-Multicast/
diff --git a/net/p5-Net-FS-Flickr/pkg-descr b/net/p5-Net-FS-Flickr/pkg-descr
index ed94bcbcbecb..6c8adbc619cb 100644
--- a/net/p5-Net-FS-Flickr/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/p5-Net-FS-Flickr/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Net::FS::Flickr - store and retrieve files on Flickr
 
-Author:	Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>
-WWW:	http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-FS-Flickr/
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-FS-Flickr/
diff --git a/net/p5-Net-FS-Gmail/pkg-descr b/net/p5-Net-FS-Gmail/pkg-descr
index 3bb75bf52b4c..7473ce4d14dc 100644
--- a/net/p5-Net-FS-Gmail/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/p5-Net-FS-Gmail/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This's a Perl interface for store and retrieve files on Gmail.
 
-Author:	Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>
-WWW:	http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-FS-Gmail/
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-FS-Gmail/