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All Login customers are responsible for reviewing and complying
with this Acceptable Use Policy. Login customers who provide services
to their own users must affirmatively and contractually pass on the
restrictions of this Acceptable Use Policy to their users, and take steps
to ensure compliance by their users with this Acceptable Use Policy
including, without limitation, termination of users who violate this
policy. For the purposes of this Policy, "Customer" shall
be defined to include Login's customers and also a customer's users
and account holders. This Policy is subject to change with notice by
publication on this Web site; customers are responsible for
monitoring this web site for changes. This Policy was last changed on
September 20, 2001.The actions described below are defined by Login
as "AUP violations" and are strictly prohibited under this
Policy. The examples named below are not exhaustive and are provided
solely for guidance to Customers. If any Customer is unsure of
whether a contemplated use or action is permitted, it is Customer's
responsibility to determine whether the use is permitted by
contacting Login via electronic mail. The following activities are
expressly prohibited, and Login expressly reserves the right, at its
discretion, to pursue any remedies that it believes are warranted
which may include, but is not limited to, filtering, suspending, or
terminating accounts, end-users or Customers that engage in system
abuse or who refuse to address user abuse.In general, Login Customers
may not use Login's network, machines, or services in any manner
which:
violates any applicable law, regulation, treaty, or tariff;
violates the
acceptable use policies of any networks, machines, or services
which are accessed through Login's network;
infringes on
the intellectual property rights of Login or others;
violates the
privacy of others;
involves the
resale of Login's products or services, unless specifically
documented in a separate written agreement or in the initial
Customer contract with Login;
involves
deceptive online marketing practices including, without
limitation practices that violate the United States Federal
Trade Commission's guidelines for proper online marketing
schemes; or
otherwise
violates this Acceptable Use Policy.
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Prohibited activities also include but are not limited to, the
following:
- unauthorized
use (or attempted unauthorized use) of any machines or
networks,
- attempting
to interfere with or denying service to any user or host (e.g.
denial of service attacks);
- falsifying
header information or user identification information;
- introduction
of malicious programs into the network or Server (e.g.
viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.);
- monitoring
or scanning the networks of others without permission;
- attempted or
successful security breaches or disruption of Internet
communication including, but not limited to, accessing data of
which Customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a
Server or account that Customer is not expressly authorized to
access;
- executing
any form of network monitoring (e.g. packet sniffer) which
will intercept data not intended for the Customer;
- attempting
to circumvent Customer authentication or security of any host,
network, or account ("cracking");
- Using any
program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed
to interfere with a third party customer terminal session, via
any means, locally or via the Internet;� sending unsolicited
bulk email;
- maintaining
an open mail relay;
- collecting
email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending
unsolicited bulk email or to provide collected addresses to
others for that purpose;
- collecting
email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending
unsolicited bulk email or to provide collected addresses to
others for that purpose;
- transmitting
or receiving copyright-infringing or obscene material;
- furnishing
false or incorrect data on the signup form; or
- attempting
to circumvent or alter the process or procedures to measure
time, bandwidth utilization, or other methods to document
"use" of Login's products and services.
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Dedicated and Co-location Customers
Login dedicated Internet and co-located customers who provide
services to their own users must affirmatively and contractually pass
on the restrictions of this Acceptable Use Policy to its users, and take
steps to ensure compliance by their users with this Acceptable Use
Policy including, without limitation, termination of the user for
violations of this policy. Login dedicated Internet and web hosting
customers who provide services to their own users also must maintain
valid postmaster and abuse addresses for their domains, comply with
all applicable Internet RFCs, maintain appropriate reverse DNS
information for all hosts receiving connectivity through Login's
network for which DNS responsibility has been delegated to the
customer, maintain accurate contact information with the InterNIC and
any other appropriate domain and IP address registries, take
reasonable steps to prevent IP spoofing by their users and downstream
customers, provide a 24/7 contact address to Login for dealing with
security and abuse issues, and act promptly to ensure that users are
in compliance with Login's Acceptable Use Policy. Reasonable steps
include, but are not limited to, using ip verify unicast reverse path
wherever appropriate and using IP address filtering wherever
appropriate.
Email
Sending unsolicited ("opt-out") bulk email is prohibited.
Sending unsolicited bulk email from another provider advertising or
implicating, directly or indirectly, the use of any service hosted or
provided by Login, including without limitation email, web, FTP, and
DNS services, is prohibited and is grounds for termination of those
services to Customers or users who engage in the practice. Customers
or users who send unsolicited bulk email from Login networks will be
charged the cost of labor to respond to complaints, with a minimum
charge of $500. Customers or users who send bulk email to
"opt-in" lists must have a method of confirmation or
verification of subscriptions and be able to show evidence of
subscription for users who complain about receiving unsolicited
email. The following actions are likewise prohibited:
- Using email
to engage in harassment, whether through language, frequency,
or size of messages. Continuing to send someone email after
being asked to stop is considered harassment.
- Using email
to disrupt (e.g., mail bombing, "flashing," etc.) is
prohibited.
- Sending
email with falsified header information.
- Sending
email with falsified or obscured information (e.g., encoded or
"obfuscated URLs") designed to hinder identification
of the location of what is advertised.
- Creating or
forwarding chain letters, pyramid schemes, and hoaxes
- Using the Login
or customer account to collect replies to messages sent from
another provider which violate these rules or those of the
other provider.
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Usenet newsgroups
Customers and users should be familiar with the workings of Usenet by
reading FAQs regarding Usenet at rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/announce/newusers/
before becoming active participants. Login places the following
restrictions on newsgroup postings by its users
- no illegal
content, including pyramid/Ponzi schemes, infringing
materials, or child pornography, is permitted;
- all postings
should conform to the various conventions, guidelines and
local culture found in each respective newsgroup and Usenet as
a whole.;
- Commercial
advertising is typically off-topic and/or a violation of
charter in most Usenet newsgroups. Information about
advertising on Usenet can be found in Joel Furr's
"Advertising on Usenet FAQ" http://www.furrs.org/FAQs/advo.htm.
For more information on "spam," see the FAQ on
"Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/spam-faq/
which is regularly posted to the news.admin.net-abuse.misc
newsgroup by Chris Lewis, or visit spam.abuse.net/.�
- Posting 20
or more copies of the same article in a 45-day period
("spamming") or continued posting of off-topic
articles after being warned is prohibited. Users who engage in
spamming using Login networks will be charged the cost of
labor to issue cancellations and respond to complaints, with a
minimum charge of $500. Users who engage in spamming from
another provider advertising or implicating, directly or
indirectly, the use of any service hosted or provided by Login,
including without limitation email, web, FTP, and DNS
services, is prohibited and is grounds for termination of
those services to those users.
- Excessive
crossposting (Breidbart Index of 20 or greater in a 45-day period)
is prohibited. The Breidbart Index (BI) is calculated by
taking the sum of the square roots of the number of newsgroups
each copy of an article is crossposted to. If two articles are
posted, one crossposted to 9 newsgroups and the other
crossposted to 16 newsgroups, the BI = sqrt(9)+sqrt(16)=3+4=7.
Crossposting articles to newsgroups where they are off-topic
is prohibited; a good rule of thumb is that if you are
crossposting to more than five newsgroups, it's likely to be
off-topic on at least one of them.
- Posting
articles with falsified header information is prohibited.
"Munging" header information to foil email address
harvesting by "spammers" is acceptable provided that
a reasonable means of replying to the message originator is
given. Use of anonymous remailers is acceptable, so long as
the use is not otherwise a violation of this policy.
- Users may
not issue cancellations for postings except those which they
have posted themselves, those which have headers falsified so
as to appear to come from them, or in newsgroups where they
are the official moderator.
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The World Wide Web and FTP
The web space and public FTP space included with a dialup account may
not be resold or used for adult-oriented material. Login reserves the
right to require that sites using web or FTP space which receive high
amounts of traffic be moved to other servers. Web pages and FTP files
may not contain any material, text, or images, whether hosted on Login
servers or "transclusioned" (images from another site
displayed on the page) which violate or infringe any copyright,
trademark, patent, statutory, common law, or proprietary rights of
others. Web pages and FTP files may not contain links that initiate
downloads of copyright-infringing or other illegal material.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy
It is the policy of Login to respond expeditiously when duly served
with notice of intellectual property infringement. Login will
promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and
will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property
laws. Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying
with the DMCA, when it is under its control, Login will act
expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to
be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and
will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference
or link to material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. Login
will terminate access for Customers who are repeat infringers. For
our co-located customers, you must adopt and implement a Digital
Millennium Copyright Act policy that reserves the necessary rights to
remove or disable infringing material. If you believe that a copyrighted
work has been copied and is accessible on our site in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us by providing
our registered copyright agent with the following information:
- electronic
or physical signature of the person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- a
description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been
infringed;
- a
description of where the material that you claim is infringing
is located on the site;
- your
address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- a statement
by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the
law;
- a statement
by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above
information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the
copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's
behalf.
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Notices of claimed infringement should be directed to support@login.com.
When Login removes or disables access to any material claimed to be
infringing, Login may attempt to contact the user who has posted such
material in order to give that user an opportunity to respond to the
notification. Any and all counter notifications submitted by the user
will be furnished to the complaining party. Login will give the
complaining party an opportunity to seek judicial relief in
accordance with the DMCA before Login replaces or restores access to
any material as a result of any counter notification.
Internet Relay Chat
Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the
ability of others to properly use IRC is prohibited. Impersonating
other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC is prohibited.
Servers and Proxies
Users may not run on Login-owned servers any program which makes a
service or resource available to others, including but not limited to
port redirectors, proxy servers, chat servers, MUDs, file servers,
and IRC bots. Customers are responsible for the security of their own
networks and machines. Login will assume neither responsibility nor accountability
for failures or breach of customer-imposed protective measures,
whether implied or actual. Abuse that occurs as a result of a
compromised customer's system or account may result in suspension of
services or account access by Login, for example, if a system is
abused after becoming infected with Back Orifice or the NetBus trojan
horse programs as a result of an Internet download or executing an
email attachment. (See www.nwi.net/~pchelp/bo/bo.html
) Any programs, scripts, or processes which generate excessive
server load on Login servers are prohibited and Login reserves the
right to terminate or suspend any such program, script, or process.
Unsolicited Bulk Email Support Services and
Email Address Harvesting
Customers and users may not advertise, distribute, or use software
intended to facilitate sending unsolicited bulk email or harvest
email addresses from the Internet for that purpose. Customers and
users may not sell or distribute lists of harvested email addresses
for that purpose.
Referral ID Services
Customers who provide or make use of a service employing referral IDs
will be considered responsible for unsolicited bulk email sent by
members of the referral ID service that makes reference to services
hosted by Login. Customers must be able to provide visible evidence
from the UBE-advertised link that a member of their referral ID
service has had their membership terminated.
Storing files
The storage of any program, utility or file on Login's servers the
use of which would constitute a violation of this policy is
prohibited. For example, it is a violation to store hacker scripts,
IRC bots, or spamming software on Login's servers.
How to Contact Us
To contact us with questions or comments regarding this Acceptable
Use Policy or claimed violations of this Policy, please email support@login.com.
(c) 2002-2008 Login Inc.
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