On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:24:42 +0000, Nyal Williams wrote:

I just opened r.a.s. and immediately got a warning notice that this is a
"dangerous" site suspected of "Phishing," that it "shows signs of
involvement in 'phishing,' a scam in which a criminal's web site
masquerades as a legitimate commercial sit to obtain your credit
cardnumbr or other personal information for nefarious purposes."

It seems that the NY attorney general thought it would be a good idea to
ban the binaries newsgroups used by pedos and leaned on Comcasts to do so.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...roup_shutdown/

covers the story, or go to www.theregister.co.uk put 'USENET' in their
search box for other stories on the topic

Comcast originally said they'd drop Usenet entirely, though it wasn't
clear if they meant whether they intended to shut down their NNTP servers
or block all use of the NNTP protocol on their network.

Judging by what you've found they took some flak for the threatened total
shutdown and have backed off, instead settling for merely using warning
messages such as the one you quote.


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