Robert Haskins

Robert Haskins is currently employed by Renesys Corporation, a leader in
real-time Internet connectivity monitoring and reporting. He has been a
Unix system administrator since graduating from the University of Maine
with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1990. After an initial
stint working at a nuclear power plant, Robert has fought spam in many
environments, including enterprise, cable modem ISP, network equipment
manufacturer, wholesale dialup ISP, competitive local exchange carrier,
traditional ISP, and network management services provider.

Robert is lead author on a book for Addison-Wesley titled "Slamming
Spam: A Guide for System Administrators" published December, 2004. He is
coauthor of a patent pending method to reduce spam. Robert has presented
at NANOG19, FBI Boston Infragard and LISA '03 on the topic of fighting
spam. He has a regular column for Usenix's ;login: called "ISPadmin"
where he writes about technical issues related to the service provider
industry. He is a member of IEEE, Usenix and SAGE.