From: "Bill Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [isp-tech] blackhole.compu.net is now defunct.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:40:14 -0500
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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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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