I'm a long time anti-spam and email best practices advocate, currently employed as director of deliverability for an email service provider in the midwest. I've had a few different careers throughout my life, from working in restaurants, to typesetting, print design and prepress, to unix system administration, to spam filter creator, to policy compliance manager and deliverability consultant.

Once upon a time, I had fun dabbling in radio, and I've produced a few albums, and provided the graphic design for a few others. I've helped lots of people create websites, including the occasional hot dog stand and other bloggers. When I lived in Minneapolis, I would occasionally have the honor of working the door at my favorite jazz club, the Artists' Quarter, owned by Kenny Horst. From 1998-2006, I created and managed the club's website. Nowadays, you'll find the club's internet presence in the capable hands of my good friend, Don Berryman.

I've lived happily in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago since 2006. Prior to that I lived in Minneapolis. I'm married to the somewhat internet-famous Kate Harding, which doesn't help in the least with restaurant reservations. I'm friends with Patrick Neal Cannon, though it's been a while since I saw him last.

.I blog about all things related to email, anti-spam and blacklists over on Spam Resource and DNSBL Resource, something I've been doing for years.

I run a small website with various DNS-related tools over at XNND.com.

You can find my personal blog over at www.baconrodeo.com, and I have a collection of very old webpages at www.radparker.com.

I built this simple little website to learn how Google Sites works. So far, so good.