Acceptable Usage Policy

Responsible Use Policy

• Users may not download illegal copies of commercial software through or store such software on any system owned by Access Internet Communications. If commercial software is found on our hard disk, we will delete all related files and immediately terminate your service.
• Users may not make threats against another person via e-mail, news or any other electronic media/service provided by Access Internet Communications.
• Users may not mount a deliberate attack against our system or use our system in a deliberate attack on any other systems. This includes but is not limited to ....
  • Mail bombing (sending three or more unsolicited pieces of e-mail or files exceeding 60K)
  • "Hacking" or attempting to gain root access
  • Ping flooding
  • Tsunami or flood bots
  • Annoyance utilities like "nuke" or "flash"
• Users may not "spam" or flood the usenet newsgroups by posting a single article to multiple (more than 3) groups not related to the topic of your article.
• Users may not post deliberate off topic messages to Usenet. This includes messages violating the specific newsgroup's charter or purpose.
• Users may not "spam" people via email. This is defined as unsolicited (unwanted, not requested) email sent to many people. Any user who spams (defined as more than 3 complaints about unsolicited email) and has Access referenced in any way within that email, (ie. listed as the originating or destination system, or references to email address, domain name or user name at Access), will have the account immediately terminated.
• Users may not forge e-mail or news postings (to include cancel messages, whether manual or automated).

IRC, Cron Jobs and Background Processes

• Users may not have more than 3 clients on IRC at any one time. A client is either a bot or an IRC session. We reserve the right to kill any process that is causing significant server load.
• Users may not flood (send text repeatedly) other clients on IRC.
• Users may not run servers (ftp, http, IRC, MUDs, MUSHs, etc.) on any server without express permission from Access Internet Communications.
• Users may not run link lookers on IRC.
• Users may not run mailing lists on or through our servers.
• Users may only have one dial-in per account at a time. Multiple telnet sessions are allowed.
• Users may not run packet sniffers or similar programs.
• Users may not schedule a cron process to run more often than once every hour.
• Users are allowed to run one background job while not logged in. We reserve the right to kill any process that is causing significant server load.

Unmetered Time Policy

• The unmetered time policy means there are no per minute charges levied by Access Internet Communications for the use of our dialin services by you, the customer. We want to make the net available to all of our users at a reasonable price and in a manner that supports your needs.
• A personal account is not intended to take the place of a dedicated connection to the net or to support sustained, unattended operations. When you need to be on the net, use it. When you do not need to be on the net, log off and make the lines available for other users.
• Activities such as automatic dialers and scripts intended to defeat session limits and idle timeouts in order to maintain a continuous connection to the net, interfere with the ability of this organization to provide reliable service to it's customers and cannot be supported. Sustained, chronic abuse will result in account termination for cause. If you require a full-time connection to the net, please call our business office at 408-777-8190 to arrange for a dedicated connection.