Our Spam Policy
and Penalty
If you have been accused
of sending spam, this page contains information about your rights, and our policies
regarding spam offenses.
Commercial
advertisements with e-mail Policy:
Unsolicited commercial advertisements are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely
result in account suspension or cancellation.
Commercial advertisements
are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists.
Inappropriate posting may result in account suspension or cancellation. See
the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or
not. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic
newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such.
Sending
a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five or six recipients,
is by itself spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to
be added to a mailing list on that topic.
E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium.
Penalties
for Abuse
If any users are
found to be abusing our resources by sending spam or other unsolicited commercial
emails, their account will be immediately suspended. The term of this suspension
is based on the severity of the abuse, and the amount of harm caused. We reserve
the right to refuse service to anyone, for any length of time.
If your account
has been suspended and you would like to have it released, you must first fill
out our incident report form. If it is decided that
your account may be released, you will be charged a fee of $150/hour for time
spent on re-enstating your account, and any cleanup, maintenance, or repair
that may be necessary due to damage caused by the infraction.
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