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Millenia Internet Services, Inc.
Dial-up Services Acceptable Use Policy
Important Note: This document is
updated often. Please make a habit of reviewing it from time to time
to stay abreast of acceptable as well as inappropriate uses of your
Millenia Internet Services account. Reports of activity in violation
of this policy may be sent via e-mail to abuse@millenia.com.
This document is divided into the
following sections:
When you open your Millenia Internet
Services ("MIS") account, you join two communities. First is
the community formed by our network and our customers; the second
community is the one made up of all networks and users connected to
each other to form the Internet. Becoming a member of these
communities gives you certain rights and privileges, but also imposes
certain duties and responsibilities. MIS has established an Acceptable
Use Policy in order to make these duties and responsibilities more
clear. This document is intended to provide a general understanding of
MIS's Acceptable Use Policy. The following factors guide the
establishment and enforcement of MIS's usage policies:
- Ensure reliable service to our
customers
- Ensure security and privacy of our
systems and network, as well as the networks and systems of others
- Comply with existing laws
- Maintain our reputation as a
responsible service provider
- Encourage responsible use of the
Internet and discourage activities which reduce the usability and
value of Internet services
- Preserve the value of Internet
resources as a conduit for free expression and exchange of
information
- Preserve the privacy and security of
individual users
MIS intends to provide its customers
access to everything the Internet has to offer. While MIS is firmly
committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities are
damaging to the resources of both MIS and the Internet and cannot be
permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of MIS and the
Internet are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a
negative impact on the entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the
activity of accounts except for measurements of system utilization and
the preparation of billing records. However, in our efforts to promote
good citizenship within the Internet community, we will respond
appropriately if we become aware of inappropriate use of our service.
If a MIS account is used to violate the
Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to terminate your service
without notice. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate
behavior and any necessary corrective action. However, flagrant
violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate
termination of service. Our failure to enforce this policy, for
whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do
so at any time.
As a member of our network community,
you must use your Internet access responsibly. If you have any
questions regarding this policy, please contact us at abuse@millenia.com
Your MIS account provides you access to a
vast collection of networks and services around the world such as the
World Wide Web, electronic mail, and newsgroups. Your use of these
services is subject to the following policy. Violations of this policy
may result in termination of your account with or without notice in
accordance with the Agreement for Use of Millenia Internet Services
that you accepted at the time you created your account.
In general, you may NOT use your
MIS account:
- In a manner which violates any law,
regulation, treaty or tariff;
- In a manner which violates the
rules, regulations and policies of any network, server, web site,
database or service provider that you access through your MIS
account;
- In a manner which is defamatory,
fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive;
- To threaten, harass, abuse or
intimidate others;
- To damage the name or reputation of
MIS, its parent, affiliates and subsidiaries;
- To break security on any computer
network, or to access an account which does not belong to you; or
- In a manner which interferes with
other customers' use and enjoyment of the services provided by
MIS.
MIS reserves sole discretion to
determine whether any use of the service is a violation of this
policy. Guidelines for using your account follows. This information is
only a guideline, and is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Your MIS account gives you the ability to
send and receive electronic mail. Misuse of electronic mail may result
in termination of service. The following examples are non-exclusive
and are provided for your guidance.
- You may not use your account to send
unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam"). This
includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial
advertising, informational announcements, charity requests,
petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such
messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested
it.
- You may not use your account to
collect responses from unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail sent
from accounts with other providers.
- Forging, altering or removing
electronic mail headers is prohibited.
- You may not send numerous copies of
the same or substantially similar message, nor may you send very
large messages or files to a recipient, with the intent to disrupt
a server or account ("mail bombing").
- You may not use electronic mail to
harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language,
frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending
a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a
recipient asks to stop receiving email, you must not send that
person any further messages.
- You may not forward or otherwise
propagate chain letters, whether or not such messages solicit
money or other items of value, and whether or not the recipient
wishes to receive such mailings.
- MIS accounts may not be used to
collect replies to messages sent from another Internet service
provider if those messages violate this Acceptable Use Policy or
the acceptable use policy of the other service provider.
- If you use the services of another
provider to promote a web site hosted by or through MIS, then the
provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall apply to the
methods used to promote such site.
Your MIS account gives you access to
thousands of newsgroups. These newsgroups allow you to read and post
messages on a variety of topics. Newsgroups may be moderated or
unmoderated. Newsgroups may also have a charter or a FAQ that
describes what subjects are appropriate for each newsgroup. Misuse of
newsgroups may result in the termination of your service.
- MIS provides an uncensored newsfeed.
As such, MIS does not control the content of the newsgroups
available to you. MIS believes that decisions about which
newsgroups and messages to read are best left to its customers.
Screening software is available from third parties, and it is your
responsibility to use such tools if desired. MIS is not
responsible for the content of any newsgroup message, whether or
not the message was posted by a MIS customer.
- Messages posted to newsgroups must
comply with the written charters or FAQs for those newsgroups.
Advertisements, solicitations, or other commercial messages should
be posted only in those newsgroups whose charters or FAQs
explicitly permit them. You are responsible for determining the
policies of a given newsgroup before posting to it. If you are
unable to find a newsgroup's policy regarding commercial messages,
you must assume that such messages are not welcome.
- You may not post or cross-post the
same or substantially similar message to more than 5 newsgroups.
Continued cross-posting can result in termination of service and
the cancellation of the message.
- You may not post binary files to
newsgroups not specifically named for that purpose.
- You may not post messages promoting
pyramid schemes, "Make Money Fast" (MMF) schemes, chain
letters, or other schemes to newsgroups. Doing so will result in
immediate termination of service.
- You may not forge or remove header
information. This includes attempting to circumvent the approval
process for posting to a moderated newsgroup.
- You may not solicit mail for any
address other than your Millenia Internet Service account or
service where doing so manifests an intent to harass others.
- You may not post messages for the
purpose of threatening, harassing or intimidating others.
- You may not post messages which
infringe on personal or property rights of others (privacy rights
or copyrights, for example).
- You may not cancel messages other
than your own, with the exception of official newsgroup moderators
performing their duties.
MIS does not censor or control content
posted to a newsgroup. As a user of our service, you are solely
responsible for the content that you publish. MIS, upon receiving
notification that certain posts violate this policy, or any state or
federal law, or infringe on the trademarks or copyrights of another,
reserves the right to remove such posts from our news server and to
terminate your account.
Your account with MIS provides the option
to purchase personal home page space. MIS will not routinely monitor
the contents of your personal home page.
You are solely responsible for any
information contained on your personal home page. However, if
complaints are received regarding language, content or graphics
contained on your personal home page, MIS may, at its sole discretion,
remove the personal home page hosted on MIS servers and terminate your
personal home page service.
You may not use your personal home page
site to publish material which MIS determines, at its sole discretion,
to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this
policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications
including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs,
illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video
recordings, and audio recordings.
Unlawful content is that which
violates any law, statute, treaty, regulation, or lawful order. This
includes, but is not limited to: obscene material; defamatory,
fraudulent or deceptive statements; threatening, intimidating or
harassing statements, or material which violates the privacy rights or
property rights of others (copyrights or trademarks, for example).
Indecent content is that which
depicts sexual or excretory activities in a patently offensive matter
as measured by contemporary community standards.
Objectionable content is
otherwise legal content with which MIS concludes, in its sole
discretion, it does not want to be associated in order to protect its
reputation and brand image, or to protect its employees, shareholders
and affiliates.
Examples of prohibited personal home
page content:
- Materials which depict or describe
scantily-clad and lewdly depicted male and/or female forms or body
parts, and which lack serious literary, artistic, political or
scientific value.
- Materials which suggest or depict
obscene, indecent, vulgar, lewd or erotic behavior, and which lack
serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
- Materials which hold MIS including
its affiliates, employees or shareholders up to public scorn or
ridicule.
- Materials which encourage the
commission of a crime; or which tends to incite violence; or which
tends to degrade any person or group based on sex, nationality,
religion, color, age, marital status, sexual orientation,
disability or political affiliation.
Your account with MIS provides the option
to purchase Extra E-mail Boxes service. All provisions of the
Acceptable Use Policy apply to your use of Extra E-mail Boxes service;
in particular, please note the Electronic Mail, Newsgroups,
and Security section of this policy. Misuse of Extra E-mail
Boxes service may result in the termination of your account.
As the primary account holder, you are
responsible for all account activity. If a Secondary mailbox or
mailbox alias is involved in a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy,
your account, including all Secondary mailboxes and mailbox aliases
may be terminated. A terminated account will result in lost e-mail and
Internet access for all users of your account. Therefore, it is
important that you make sure everyone you allow to use your account or
a Secondary mailbox or mailbox alias understands all terms of this
Acceptable Use Policy and the consequences of violations.
You are responsible for any misuse of your
account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend,
family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to
ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In
addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another
account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or
server.
- Your password provides access to
your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password
secure.
- Passwords must contain at least six
characters, and should contain at least one number or symbol,
should contain both uppercase and lowercase letters, and should
not be based on any word found in the dictionary or on any
personal information (name or birthdate, for example). Your
password should not be the same as your userID.
- Sharing your password and account
access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care
to prevent others from using your account since you will be held
responsible for such use.
- Attempting to obtain another user's
account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in
termination of service.
- You must adopt adequate security
measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
- You may not attempt to circumvent
user authentication or security of any host, network or account
("cracking"). This includes, but is not limited to,
accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of
a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or
probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of
tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples
of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing
programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
- You may not attempt to interfere
with service to any user, host, or network ("denial of
service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to,
"flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload
a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
- Users who violate systems or network
security may incur criminal or civil liability. MIS will cooperate
fully with investigations of violations of systems or network
security at other sites, including cooperating with law
enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal
violations.
MIS accounts operate on shared resources.
Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one
customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of
network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is
prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your
account.
- You are prohibited from excessive
consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space
and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs
which negatively impact other customers or the performance of MIS
systems or networks. MIS reserves the right to terminate or limit
such activities.
- You may not establish more than one
connection to our network from your account at any one time.
- You may not provide network services
from your account (for example, you may not use your account to
operate an ftp or a web server).
- Messages left on MIS's mail servers
for more than forty-five (45) days are subject to immediate
deletion. Mailboxes under one megabyte in total size will be
exempt from the 45 day retention limit. Total mailbox storage is
limited to five megabytes without regard to the age of messages in
the mailbox. Once the five megabyte limit is exceeded, any
incoming messages will be returned to the sender until the
subscriber reduces mailbox size by removing mail from the server.
- You may not employ automated
electronic or mechanical processes designed to defeat network
inactivity time-outs. Such tools include, but are not limited to,
use of an auto-dialer and repetitive pinging of a host.
Although MIS does not offer software or
technical support for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), you may use your
account to connect to IRC servers and networks maintained by third
parties. Please remember that you are a guest when you make use of
these facilities. It is particularly important that you do not engage
in activities which might interfere with other customers' access to
IRC.
- You may not use IRC scripts or
programs that interfere with or deny service to other users on any
other server, host, network or channel.
- You may not engage in activities
which harass other users. This includes, but is not limited to,
"flooding" (rapidly entering text with the intent to
disrupt service), "flashing" (disrupting terminal
emulation), "takeovers" (improper seizing and abuse of
operator privileges), attempting to send private messages to those
who do not wish to receive them, attempting to return to a channel
after being banned from it, and other disruptive behaviors.
- You may not attempt to impersonate
other users. The use of nicknames does not constitute
impersonation.
- You may run "clones"
(multiple simultaneous IRC connections) and "robots"
only as permitted by the host IRC server.
Any activity on our network that is a
violation of any state or federal law is a violation of this policy
and will result in immediate termination of service. Prohibited
activities include, but are not limited to:
- Transmitting obscene materials
- Intentionally spreading or
threatening to spread computer viruses
- Gaining or attempting to gain
unauthorized access to any network, including MIS's private
network infrastructure
- Accessing or attempting to access
information not intended for you
- Transmitting pirated software
- Conducting or participating in
illegal gambling
- Soliciting for pyramid and other
illegal schemes.
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