Aminet.org??? It's not even Amiga related? Or was it???

[gizz72]

Greetings,

I stumbled on a link where this address I thought would lead to an www usa aminet org site. Did I typed wrong here???

So, was this aminet too? :-?

Regards,

GiZz72

[Steady]

Oh my god!!!

So many popups and ads. Best not to click on that site.

I don't think it was a US Aminet server. I think it was us.aminet.net.

[Framiga]

about 0 risk here:

This site is working only under IE 4 and higher and Netscape 4 and higher.
Please update your browser.

:-D

EDIT- from AWeb it works and spoofing even on IB now.

btw . . the domain is for sale.

[Linchpin]

hence the popups... darn i hate those spammage holding companies

[JaXanim]

It also delivers a Trojan. Stay away!

JaX

[Linchpin]

Might be a good idea for a mod to delete the link.

MoD'S!!!!

[Vincent]

Instead of deleting the link, put a big bold large-sized letters warning right before it and change it from a direct link to normal text (you'd have to take out the www part to avoid the auto-link script in xoops though).

I don't think it's ever been part of Aminet at all.

[Linchpin]

Good idea :-D

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Sorry for the link and pop up mess.

Here I've edited the link.

I was using AWEB with little popup to bother. Thanks for the warning guys.

Regards,

GiZz72

[adolescent]

Aminet.org was the name back in the early 90s.  Somewhere along the line, probably when netnet.net or cdrom.com dropped the main US mirrors the name died.