The following constitute violations of
this AUP:
a. Illegal use. Using the Services to
transmit any material (by email, uploading,
posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally
or unintentionally, violates any applicable
local, state, national or international law,
or any rules or regulations promulgated
thereunder.
b. Harm to minors. Using the Services to
harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way.
c. Threats. Using the Services to
transmit any material (by email, uploading,
posting, or otherwise) that threatens or
encourages bodily harm or destruction of
property.
d. Harassment. Using the Services to
transmit any material (by email, uploading,
posting, or otherwise) that harasses
another.
e. Fraudulent activity. Using the
Services to make fraudulent offers to sell
or buy products, items, or services or to
advance any type of financial scam such as
"pyramid schemes," "Ponzi schemes," and
"chain letters."
f. Forgery or impersonation. Adding,
removing or modifying identifying network
header information in an effort to deceive
or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to
impersonate any person by using forged
headers or other identifying information is
prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers
or nicknames does not constitute
impersonation. Using deliberately misleading
headers ("munging" headers) in news postings
in order to avoid spam email address
collectors is allowed.
g. Unsolicited commercial
email/Unsolicited bulk email. Using the
Services to transmit any unsolicited
commercial email or unsolicited bulk email.
Activities that have the effect of
facilitating unsolicited commercial email or
unsolicited bulk email whether or not that
email is commercial in nature, are
prohibited.
h. Unauthorized access. Using the
Services to access, or to attempt to access,
the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or
attempt to penetrate, security measures of
Access Technology's or another entity's
computer software or hardware, electronic
communications system, or telecommunications
system, whether or not the intrusion results
in the corruption or loss of data.
i. Copyright or trademark infringement.
Using the Services to transmit any material
(by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise)
that infringes any copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret, or other proprietary
rights of any third party, including, but
not limited to, the unauthorized copying of
copyrighted material, the digitization and
distribution of photographs from magazines,
books, or other copyrighted sources, and the
unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted
software. Access Technology is registered
under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of
1998.
j. Collection of personal data. Using the
Services to collect, or attempt to collect,
personal information about third parties
without their knowledge or consent.
k. Reselling the services. Reselling the
Services without Access Technology's
authorization.
l. Network disruptions and unfriendly
activity. Using the Services for any
activity which adversely affects the ability
of other people or systems to use Access
Technology Services or the Internet. This
includes "denial of service" (DoS) attacks
against another network host or individual
user. Interference with or disruption of
other network users, network services or
network equipment is prohibited. It is the
Member's responsibility to ensure that their
network is configured in a secure manner. A
Member may not, through action or inaction,
allow others to use their network for
illegal or inappropriate actions. A Member
may not permit their network, through action
or inaction, to be configured in such a way
that gives a third party the capability to
use their network in an illegal or
inappropriate manner.
m. News. Access Technology Members should
use their best judgment when posting to any
newsgroup. Many groups have charters,
published guidelines, FAQs, or "community
standards" describing what is and is not
considered appropriate. Usenet can be a
valuable resource if used properly. The
continued posting of off-topic articles is
prohibited. Commercial advertisements are
off-topic in most newsgroups, especially
regional groups not specifically named for
such. The presence of such articles in a
group is not indicative of the group's
"intended" use. Please familiarize yourself
with basic Usenet netiquette before posting
to a newsgroup.
Access Technology considers "multiposting"
to 10 or more groups within a two week
sliding window to be excessive. Access
Technology servers currently limit the
number of allowable "cross-posts" to 9.
Access Technology Members may not cancel
messages other than their own messages. A
Member may cancel posts forged in that
Member's name. We may cancel any postings
which violate this AUP.
n. Long Connections and Multiple Logins.
Using a personal account for high volume or
commercial use is prohibited. The Services
are intended for periodic, active use of
email, newsgroups, file transfers, Internet
chat, games, and browsing the World Wide
Web. Members may stay connected so long as
they are actively using that connection for
the above purposes. Members may not use the
Services on a standby or inactive basis in
order to maintain a connection. Pinging is
expressly prohibited. Accordingly, Access
Technology maintains the right to terminate
any member's connection following any
extended period of inactivity as determined
by Access Technology.
o. Exceeding Web Site Size and Traffic
Limitations: All Access Technology Members
receive optional 2 mb webspace for use with their
Access Technology Internet access account.
Each member’s webspace is allocated
750MB of traffic per month (traffic is
calculated on a formula multiplying the
number of hits that your site receives by
the size of your files). If a site exceeds
its maximum monthly allotment of traffic,
the site will become unavailable until the
beginning of the next calendar month. A site
that exceeds 2MB in size will also become
unavailable. Unavailability includes but may
not be limited to the inability to access
the site publicly or to publish to or modify
the site's contents via certain Web creation
tools. More information about appropriate
use of the free member webspace appears
under Free Webspace Community Guidelines.
Access Technology requests that anyone
who believes that there is a violation of
this AUP direct the information to
Director-Abuse Department, at:
abuse@accesstechnology.net
If available, please provide the
following information:
The IP address used to commit the alleged
violation
The date and time of the alleged
violation, including the time zone or offset
from GMT
Evidence of the alleged violation
Email with full header information
provides all of the above, as do syslog
files. Other situations will require
different methods of providing the above
information.
Access Technology may take any one or
more of the following actions in response to
complaints:
issue warnings: written or verbal
suspend the Member's newsgroup posting
privileges
suspend the Member's account
terminate the Member's account
bill the Member for administrative
costs and/or reactivation charges
bring legal action to enjoin violations
and/or to collect damages, if any, caused
by violations.
