Our blackhole lists are defunct. We announced their closure over 2 years ago and it was 
widely covered by the press at the time. We are still recording several hundred lookups 
per minute so Friday December 9th 2005 we started answering positive to all requests. If your
mail is being blocked simply contact any isp blocking you using these lists and let them 
know they need to remove them ASAP! If they have questions they can contact me directly. 
My email is blarson@compu.net


To identify whom to contact please reference the error message you receive. 

Look for something similar to:

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.somedomain.com.:
>>>  MAIL From:<youremail@yourdomain.com>
<<< 518 Your SMTP server is listed at something.compu.net
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

In this case you would contact somedomain.com you would tell them that the 
whatever.compu.net dnsbl is defunct and is now answering postiive on all 
lookups.  As such they should remove it and any other compu.net dnsbl ASAP to 
prevent legitimate emails from being blocked. 

If they need verification send them to this web site.

I announced this upcoming change to both the SPAM-L mailing list and the 
news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup

"Over 2 years ago I shutdown blackhole.compu.net, pacbelldsl.compu.net, and pm0-no-more.compu.net 
then announced the shutdown on the news.admin.net-abuse.email and several other mail and abuse 
related lists. As of today I am still logging several hundred requests per minute to it two 
years later. In one week I am going to start answering positive on every lookup to those domains.
I don't want to do this however I am not going to continue to bear the load for something that 
ceased to exist over two years ago. So basically check your mail servers and if you are using 
the blackhole.compu.net, pacbelldsl.compu.net or pm0-no-more.compu.net dnsbls remove it asap! 
Thanks."

Bill Larson
Network Administrator
Compu-Net Enterprises