Whoa!

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."

The sign popped up again when I clicked to post a message.

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

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site". Obviously you're
accessing Usenet through some "site" which generates that message. The
rest of us doesn't see that message.

On Aug 20, 2:24*pm, 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."

The sign popped up again when I clicked to post a message.

Utter nonsense.
I am very interested in purchasing your glider. Please to accept my
cashiers check for an amount in excess of your asking price, and
shipping to me your glider very soonest.

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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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

"John Smith" wrote in message
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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

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site". Obviously you're
accessing Usenet through some "site" which generates that message. The
rest of us doesn't see that message.

He is getting here via Glider Pilot Network www.gliderpilot.net

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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site".

RAS is available through Google Groups at:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...soaring/topics

HTH.

wrote:

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site".

RAS is available through Google Groups at:

1. Sure. But that doesn't change the fact that RAS is not "a site".

2. The OP accesses RAS not through google groups but through
gliderpilot.net, anyway. This doesn't change the fact that RAS is not "a
site", either.

I get r.a.s. through gliderpilot.net. My service provider is Comcast. The
message that it is a phishing site comes up from my spyware, which is
PC-cillin.

At 07:46 21 August 2008, John Smith wrote:
wrote:

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site".

RAS is available through Google Groups at:

1. Sure. But that doesn't change the fact that RAS is not "a site".

2. The OP accesses RAS not through google groups but through
gliderpilot.net, anyway. This doesn't change the fact that RAS is not
"a
site", either.

I get r.a.s. through gliderpilot.net. My service provider is Comcast. The
message that it is a phishing site comes up from my spyware, which is
PC-cillin.

At 07:46 21 August 2008, John Smith wrote:
wrote:

Actually, this group is Usenet and not a "site".

RAS is available through Google Groups at:

1. Sure. But that doesn't change the fact that RAS is not "a site".

2. The OP accesses RAS not through google groups but through
gliderpilot.net, anyway. This doesn't change the fact that RAS is not
"a
site", either.

But that doesn't change the fact that RAS is not "a site".

Is http://groups.google.com 'a site'?