Yea I understand the fact about the newsgroups, but still, why would we have any ties to them at a security site was my main point.

I am happy to see the AP system working, and how well it works. As we've all been through the threads, the AP system needs fine tuning but still helps to control unwanted material.

As for a person responding to that type of information, well yes it is up to that specific user. But I'm just saying if a "wannabe hacker" comes onto this site and searches for "hack credit card" and comes upto a newsgroup forum like alt.hack, well what do you think they will start thinking about AO? Now I'm starting to undestand why there are all these "hackers" out there making all these stupid posts on AO, because they think it has some relations to hacking.

Can't there be something done to disconnect "those" types of newsgroups from AO, or the search engine at AO?