NoSpam Policy for The PowerWare Network

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To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting services to our users, PowerWare.NET offers users a full range of commercial hosting services.  Abuse of these services is considered a violation of our Terms of Service ("Contract Agreement" You have executed before the service was started.)  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 and are blatantly contrary to our TOS.

Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:

• Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited commercial e-mails.  This is prohibited.  You are not permitted to use your PowerWare.NET account or e-mail alias/account of your Virtual Server to send unsolicited commercial e-mail.  Using an e-mail address hosted anywhere on PowerWare.NET servers to collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited.  This includes using a throw-away, free e-mail account to promote your PowerWare.NET based Virtual Server and redirectors for the same account. 
   
  
• Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your PowerWare.NET based Virtual Server 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. 
   
  

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 PowerWare.NET based mail facilities to SPAM the newsgroups.  You are prohibited from cross-post or post-off-topic subjects in the PowerWare.NET support forums. 
   
  
• 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 dim view of SPAM.  It is one of the most annoying things encountered on the Internet.  Any PowerWare.NET customer found to be spamming will have his or her account deleted immediately - no questions asked.  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. DON'T DO IT.

Thanks for your consideration.

- PowerWare.NET Administration.