To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting
services to our users, We
offers users a full range of commercial hosting services. Abuse
of these services is considered a violation of our Terms of Service/AUP.
One of the most serious abuses is using your email account hosted with
us to send unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise known as "spam." The
following are examples of spam and are blatantly contrary to our TOS/AUP.
Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:
- Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending
unsolicited commercial e-mails. This is prohibited.
You are not permitted to use your Hosting account or
e-mail alias/account of your Virtual Server to send
unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using an e-mail
address hosted anywhere on our servers
to collect responses from unsolicited commercial
e-mail is prohibited. This includes using a
throw-away, free e-mail account to promote your
Hosting account and redirectors for the same
account.
- Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large
volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from
your Hosting Provider account.
This is strictly prohibited.
- Harassment: Defined as sending
threatening or harassing e-mail after being
requested to stop, is prohibited. Extremely
threatening or harassing e-mail never is allowed.
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Inappropriate Newsgroup Activities:
- Newsgroup Spamming: Defined as excessive
cross-posting, or posting the same article to
several newsgroups. This is prohibited. Generally
accepted standards allow no more than 15 newsgroups,
or cross-postings, for a single article or
substantially similar articles. Such articles may be
canceled. You are not allowed to use your Hosting
based mail facilities to SPAM the newsgroups.
- Off topic or inappropriate postings:
There is no restriction on content, except as
defined by each newsgroup. Continued posting of
off-topic articles is prohibited. Please note that
commercial advertisements are off-topic in the vast
majority of newsgroups.
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Fine/Penalties:
Should you violate our SPAM Policies, or if any of our IP addresses or
domains or mail servers are blacklisted in any DNS based Realtime
blacklists ( DBRBL ) or similar lists because of any activity or
spamming carried out by you even unknowingly due to your system /
network being infected by a mass mailing virus, you WILL be charged
$100 per IP per Instance to get your account and email services
re-activated . Please note also that it is now considered a crime to
send UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) as it falls into the category
of "junk faxes." We will turn over all names and personal information to
the proper local, state, federal, and international officials of any
person who violates this policy.
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We
take a very dim view of SPAM. It is one of the most
annoying things encountered on the Internet. Any client
found to be spamming will have his/her account
terminated immediately - no questions asked (we will
investigate the report thoroughly before terminating any
account). There is no warning or second chance. If we
find that you have violated our Acceptable Usage Policy,
we will report you and the incident to the proper local,
state and federal authorities and will prosecute you to
the full extent of the law.
We are not attempting to censor, nor are we
attempting to curtail the business of our customers. But
as a whole, spamming hurts our members and us more than
it helps the one spammer. Do yourself, and us, a favor:
PLEASE DON'T DO IT.
If you know of any client that is or might be
violating this policy, please send a message or, if
possible, forward the SPAM or UCE in full (including
headers) to
techsupport@DotsComs.com.
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