| Abuse of our VNET site and
e-mail account services is considered a violation of our "Acceptable
Use Guidelines" and "Terms
of Service." One of the most serious abuses is using your
account to send unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise known as "spam." The
following are examples of spam (but not limited to) and are blatantly
contrary to our "Acceptable Use Guidelines" and "Terms
of Service."
Prohibited e-mail Activities:
Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending
unsolicited commercial e-mails. This is prohibited. You are not
permitted to use your VNET account or e-mail alias/account to send
unsolicited commercial or private e-mail. Using an e-mail address
hosted anywhere on VNET service to collect responses from unsolicited
commercial e-mail is prohibited.
Mail bombing: Defined as sending
large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your VNET
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.
Fraud: Defined as incorporating a
false subject line, false return address or false transmission
path into any e-mail sent using VNET's service.
Inappropriate e-mail 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
will be deleted. You are not allowed to use your VNET based e-mail
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.
We take a very strict line against
SPAM. It is one of the most annoying things encountered on the
Internet. Any VNET customer found to be spamming will have his
or her account deleted. If we find that you have violated our Acceptable
Usage Policy, we retain the right to report you and the incident
to the proper local, state and federal authorities.
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.
To report a case of spamming, please Contact
Us. |
