The following constitute violations of Arkansas.Net's Policy:
2.1. Using a personal account for high volume or commercial use. If you would like to establish and utilize a commercial account or a high-volume account, please contact Arkansas.Net's Business Sales Department at (479) 443-6444. Activities that are prohibited for Subscribers with personal accounts include, but are not limited to:
2.1.1. Maintaining a mailbox exceeding 10MB. A mailbox exceeding 10MB may, at Arkansas.Net's discretion, be transferred to a compressed temporary file or storage. Subscribers will be notified at that time with further information. Arkansas.Net reserves the right to delete the temporary file from the server 60 days after this notification. Any single email message exceeding 10MB in size will not be accepted for delivery and will be returned to the sender.
2.1.2. Exceeding 6MB of disk space for free web sites. Any free Web site exceeding 6MB will be suspended until the Subscriber brings the disk space usage fewer than 6MB or less. Or, additional megabytes may be purchased. These prices may be obtained by calling (479) 443-6444.
2.1.3. Exceeding 250MB of traffic in a one-month period for free web sites. Any free Web site exceeding 250MB of traffic will be billed for the excess traffic. Traffic over 250MB will be charged $.10 per MB.
2.2. Using Arkansas.Net's Service for illegal purposes or in support of illegal activities. In accordance with Section 5 of the Internet Access Agreement, Arkansas.Net reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrong. Activities that are prohibited as potentially illegal include, but are not limited to:
2.2.1. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material including, but not limited to, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and copyrighted software.
2.2.2. Exporting software or technical information in violation of U.S. exports control laws.
2.2.3. Posting or emailing of scams such as 'make-money-fast' schemes or 'pyramid/chain' letters.
2.2.4. Threatening bodily harm or property damage to individuals or groups.
2.2.5. Making fraudulent offers of products, items, or services originating from your account.
2.2.6. Attempting to access the accounts of others, or attempting to penetrate security measures of Arkansas.Net's or other entities' systems ("hacking"), whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data.
2.2.7. The unauthorized use of a person's name or likeness.
2.3. Harassing others by 'mail-bombing' or 'news-bombing.' 'Mail-bombing' constitutes sending more than ten (10) similar mail messages to the same email address. 'News bombing' constitutes sending more than 10MB of data to a newsgroup.
2.3.1. Sending unsolicited electronic mail (email) messages where the recipient objects to the content of the message or to the receipt of the message in general is also prohibited under this Section.
2.3.1.1. Subscribers acknowledge that they are expressly prohibited from utilizing Arkansas.Net's Service, Arkansas.Net's equipment, or any Arkansas.Net email address in connection with the sending of the same or substantially similar unsolicited email message, whether commercial or not, to a large number of recipients. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service which in any way implicates the use of Arkansas.Net's Service, Arkansas.Net's equipment, or any Arkansas.Net email address(es).
2.3.1.2. A message is unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a USENET or newsgroup charter and/or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's email address accessible to the public shall not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.
2.3.1.3. Subscriber specifically agrees that he/she/it will not utilize Arkansas.Net's Service, Arkansas.Net's equipment, or any Arkansas.Net email address in connection with the transmission of the same or substantially similar unsolicited message to 50 or more recipients or 15 or more newsgroups in a single day. A Subscriber responsible for these acts may be terminated at Arkansas.Net's discretion. For each day upon which this provision is violated, Subscriber agrees to pay Arkansas.Net $10.00 per day for an unintentional violation of this provision, but where warranted, such as in the case of an accidental transmission, Arkansas.Net may waive all or part of the applicable charge. In cases of willful violations of this provision, Subscriber agrees to pay Arkansas.Net $200.00 per day. Arkansas.Net at its sole discretion shall determine whether such a violation was unintentional or willful. Payment by member under this provision shall not prevent Arkansas.Net from seeking to obtain other legal remedies against member, including other damages or an injunction.
2.4. Revealing your account password to others or allowing use of your account by others (other than authorized users in your household). At no time may there be simultaneous use of the same username and password combination. Customers who login simultaneously will have their access suspended and may be required to pay a fee to have their service restored.
2.5. Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through Arkansas.Net's Service.
2.6. Distributing viruses to or from Arkansas.Net's Service.
2.7. Use of software or any device that would allow your account to stay logged on while you are not actively using Arkansas.Net's Service or use the account for the purpose of operating a server of any type. (See section 3 below).
2.8. Cross-posting advertisements for products, items, or services to ten (10) or more unrelated USENET newsgroups.
2.9. Posting articles to any USENET or other newsgroup, mailing list or similar forum which are off-topic according to the charter or other public statement of the forum.
2.10. Disrupting any newsgroup with frivolous, excessively vulgar, or repetitious postings.
2.11. Posting of binary, or excessively large, unrelated text files to non-binary newsgroups that have specifically requested such material not be posted in the group's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), charter or other public statement of the forum that such material not be posted.
2.12. Installation of 'auto-responders,' 'cancel-bots,' or similar automated or manual routines which generate excessive amounts of Net traffic, or disrupt Net newsgroups or email use by others.
2.13. Engaging in any of the above activities using the service of another provider but channeling such activities through an Arkansas.Net account or re-mailer, or using an Arkansas.Net account as a mail drop for responses.
