DOC: moved THANKS into a THANKS file for better visibility, concise README

MANIFEST

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 README
 ChangeLog
 TODO
+THANKS
 COPYING
 fail2ban-client
 fail2ban-server

README

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 Thanks:
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-Kévin Drapel, Marvin Rouge, Sireyessire, Robert Edeker, Tom Pike, Iain Lea,
+See THANKS file.
-Andrey G. Grozin, Yaroslav Halchenko, Jonathan Kamens, Stephen Gildea, Markus
-Hoffmann, Mark Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert, Tyler, Nick
-Munger, Christoph Haas, Justin Shore, Joël Bertrand, René Berber, mEDI, Axel
-Thimm, Eric Gerbier, Christian Rauch, Michael C. Haller, Jonathan Underwood,
-Hanno 'Rince' Wagner, Daniel B. Cid, David Nutter, Raphaël Marichez, Guillaume
-Delvit, Vaclav Misek, Adrien Clerc, Michael Hanselmann, Vincent Deffontaines,
-Bill Heaton, Russell Odom, Christos Psonis, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman, Yehuda
-Katz, and many others.
 
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THANKS

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+Fail2Ban is an open source project with many contributions from its
+users community. Below is an alphabetically sorted partial list of the
+contributors to the project.  If you have been left off, please let us
+know (preferably send a pull request on github with the "fix") and you
+will be added
+
+Adrien Clerc
+Andrey G. Grozin
+Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
+Axel Thimm
+Bill Heaton
+Christian Rauch
+Christoph Haas
+Christos Psonis
+Daniel B. Cid
+David Nutter
+Eric Gerbier
+Guillaume Delvit
+Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
+Iain Lea
+Jonathan Kamens
+Jonathan Underwood
+Joël Bertrand
+Justin Shore
+Kévin Drapel
+kojiro
+Mark Edgington
+Markus Hoffmann
+Marvin Rouge
+mEDI
+Michael C. Haller
+Michael Hanselmann
+NickMunger
+Patrick Börjesson
+Raphaël Marichez
+René Berber
+Robert Edeker
+Russell Odom
+Sireyessire
+Stephen Gildea
+Tom Pike
+Tyler
+Vaclav Misek
+Vincent Deffontaines
+Yaroslav Halchenko
+Yehuda Katz
+zugeschmiert