Effective immediately blackhole.compu.net will no longer be in service. We
have this past week been the targets of 12,000+ bounced emails, Several
hundred abuse complaints, and numerous threats against our selves, our
servers, and our Internet connection. Ignorant administrators have placed
blocks on legitimate emails from our customers due to the spam sent out
using forged random us...@compu.net email addresses. There is also a trend
by spammers to launch massive denial of service attacks at blackhole list
operators network infrastructure.

As a ISP this is a risk we can not run. We have blocked millions of emails
for the Internet community and have not once asked nor thought about
personal gain for this service. We are saddened that the spammers are
winning the war to control your inboxes.

Rather than being driven out of business by the spammers illegal activities
we were left with no other choice but to shut the list down.

If your company does not have a gross of at least 100 million a year and a
influential politician or two in your pockets to law enforcement you do not
exist. They will not investigate the criminal acts being perpetrated against
your lively hood.

The IP registries ARIN, APNIC, LANIC, RIPE, and many others need to take the
issue of spam very seriously. One very large hammer which could be used
against countries like China, Brasil, and others which ignore spammers
except when they spam their own citizens would be to revoke or suspend their
ip allocations until they clean the spammers from their house and earn it
back.

Bill Larson
Network Administrator
Compu-Net Enterprises
(931) 920-0043 or (877) 920-1429