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 6MB free
webspace for use with their Access
Technology Internet access account.
Each member’s free 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 6MB 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.