Nick Christenson at JetCafe

Nick Christenson was once Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Software Engineer at Sendmail, Inc.. Prior to that, he was Senior Architect at EarthLink Network, Inc.. He also writes book reviews for the Poker Player newspaper.

He is the author of the book sendmail Performance Tuning, published 2003 by Addison-Wesley.

He is the lead author, with Russell Fox, of the book Winning Strategies for No-Limit Hold'em, published 2008 by ConJelCo.

He is also the lead author, with Brad Knowles, of the booklet Internet Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities, published 2006 by SAGE/USENIX.

He has also written several articles and papers, some of which are listed here:

The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) FAQ.
N. Christenson, D. Beckemeyer, T. Baker, A Scalable News Architecture on a Single Spool, originally published in the June 1997 issue of ;login: magazine.
N. Christenson, T. Bosserman, D. Beckemeyer, A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems, which we presented at the First Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on December 9, 1997.
The transcription of a talk I gave on Large News Systems at the February 19, 1998 BayLISA meeting.
N. Christenson, D. Farmer, From the Trenches: One ISP's Response to the Problem of Spam, published in the April 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
N. Christenson, Adding RCS to the System Administrative Toolkit.
N. Christenson, PDF formatted slides from a talk on Performance Tuning Sendmail Systems from the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, August 1999.
S. Fritchie, J. Larson, N. Christenson, D. Jones, L. Öhman, Sendmail Meets Erlang: Experiences Using Erlang for Email Applications from the Sixth International Erlang/OTP User Conference on October 3, 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden.
B. Knowles with N. Christenson, Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable E-mail Systems from the 14th System Administration Conference (LISA 2000) on December 6, 2000.
N. Christenson, Linux and SANs Evolving Into the IT Mainstream, from Storage Networking World Online, November 25, 2002.

A list of other, less significant writings are available.

He maintains information on the sizes of the larger ISPs and Free Email Providers. Please help keep this information current.

He is also an avid Poker and Blackjack player, and he maintains some gambling information resources.

He has written several book reviews on both computing and gambling.

(Stupid Puce Ribbon
picture goes here) He also firmly believes in simplicity in Web Page design. His pledge to you is that you will see no huge slow-to-load graphics, no blinking text, and no meaningless animated images anywhere in his space. Maybe the rest of the world has forgotten that the ML in HTML stands for "Markup Language", but he hasn't. As such, he is the founding (only) member of CAUGHT, Consortium Against Unnecessary Graphics and Hypertext Tags. If you agree, display the Stupid Puce Ribbon on your page with a pointer to the CAUGHT page. On occasion he has been known to write about himself in the 3rd person.

He can be contacted at npc@jetcafe.org

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