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.