Acceptable Use Policy
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY Goals
Everywhere's goals are to
protect network resources, preserve the privacy and security of
Everywhere and our customers' networks and maximize the utility of
Everywhere and the Internet, while recognizing Everywhere's position in
the Internet community as a whole.
Interpretation
The provisions of this Policy are intended as guidelines and are not meant to be exhaustive.
Generally, conduct that violates law, regulation, or the accepted norms of the Internet community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Policy, is prohibited. Everywhere reserves the right at all times to prohibit activities that damage its commercial reputation and goodwill.
Security
Any "denial of service" attacks, any attempt to breach authentication
or security measures, or any unauthorized attempt to gain access to any
other account, host or network is prohibited, and will result in
immediate service termination, which may be without notice.
Email and Newsgroups
Using any Everywhere account or server to send duplicative, unsolicited
email messages (commercial or otherwise), or to collect the responses
from unsolicited email, is prohibited.
Similarly, using any Everywhere account or server to post advertisements or messages that violate the charter of any newsgroup or mailing list is prohibited.
Everywhere reserves the right to make the determination whether a given message violates the newsgroup or mailing list charter. In most cases Everywhere will defer to the judgment of the newsgroup or mailing list moderator or administrator.
Commercial messages that are appropriate under the charter of a newsgroup or mailing list, or that are expressly solicited by the recipients, are permitted.
Conduct in connection with email or Usenet news that is an obvious nuisance (such as "mail bombing") or that would be unlawful in other contexts (for example, threats, harassment, defamation, obscenity, or software piracy) is prohibited.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
Using programs
that interfere with others' use or running an IRC robot on any IRC
server is prohibited. When logged into any IRC server, users are
expected to comply with the rules and policies established by the
server's administrator.
Forgery of Identity
Falsifying
addressing information or otherwise modifying headers to conceal the
sender's or recipient's identity for the purpose of circumventing this
Policy is prohibited. This provision is not intended to disallow the
use of aliases or anonymous remailers for any legitimate purpose.
Copyright, Privacy, and Intellectual Property
Using an Everywhere connection to commit, aid or abet any violation of copyright or intellectual property law is prohibited.
This prohibition includes publishing a private email message to third parties, by any means, without the express prior consent of the author.
The email addresses of Everywhere subscribers are not for sale or commercial distribution to third parties without the express prior consent of the subscriber.
Broadcast Echo Requests (Smurf Attacks)
Everywhere is
committed to implementing the configuration required to ensure that
Everywhere infrastructure cannot be used as the host of smurf attacks.
There are two types of network numbers in the smurf list that reflect a connection with Everywhere: Customer network numbers for which we do not have control and backbone addresses.
Everywhere Customer Support is working with all customers on Everywhere to ensure that their networks cannot be used as amplifiers for Broadcast Echo Requests.
Cooperation with Other Providers
Using Everywhere's facilities to engage in activities that violate the Terms
of Service of any other network access provider is prohibited. For
example, sending unsolicited commercial email through Everywhere's
facilities to the subscribers of any Internet or online service
provider that disallows unsolicited commercial email is prohibited.
Consequences of Violation
Violation
of this Policy by a Everywhere customer may result in temporary
suspension or permanent termination of service at Everywhere's sole
discretion.
Everywhere does not issue service credits for any outages incurred through service disablement resulting from Policy violations.
Modification
Everywhere reserves the right to add, delete or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.
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