Thanks for the info, Chris.
For most of today, I was unable to access either news.povray.org or
www.povray.org (I am in the state of Virginia, U.S), but tried again at 5:15am
and they are working OK now. I have no idea if Comcast is somehow 'intertwined'
with my Verizon internet service here!
(Running the latest Firefox update...or nearly so.)