Alphalink does not tolerate ANY kind of Network Abuse, or activity that breaches this "Acceptable Use Policy", whether it be through choice or ignorance. Accounts may be suspended and/or cancelled without refund, according to our Breach of Policy procedures.

Network Abuse consists of spamming, sending harassing or threatening email, hack attempts through back orifice, netbus or any other means, nuking or any behavior of a malicious, reckless or vexatious nature that is disruptive to other internet users.

Disruptions include, but are not limited to:
sending mass postings or bulk email, distribution of unsolicited advertising, propagation of computer worms or viruses, using the network to make unauthorised entry to any other machine accessible via Alphalink, and forgery or attempted forgery of email messages and Usenet news postings.

NOTE: Alphalink policy is such that you cannot send email to more than 100 recipients in the one email, and no more than two of these multi-recipient emails per day. Anything more than this, constitutes a "mass posting".

You also need to be very careful about the use of "opt-in lists" (or similar) that may be purchased on CD, or that are available over the internet, as often the people on them are not aware of ever having "opted in" despite claims that may be made by the distributors of the material. As a result, the use of such "opt-in lists" will constitute "spamming".

Material Subject to Copyright must not be included on a member’s website, nor in any format that may be downloaded by others, without the consent of the lawful owners of that material. Any website that has content under copyright dispute will be disabled until such time as one of the parties involved is able to prove ownership. Where the matter is before the court, the website will remain disabled until the court has made a decision and all periods of appeal have lapsed.

Peer-to-peer file sharing software may be an attractive way to obtain a wealth of material from the Internet, however, members should be aware of some potential hidden dangers associated with its use which may breach this Acceptable Use Policy and the Alphalink Terms & Conditions of Use. Please refer to our P2P software page for detailed information about this.

Networking, or running more than one computer off a single connection, is neither supported, nor encouraged by Alphalink.

Small Businesses are welcome to use Alphalink according to the guidelines set out in our information on Small Business Use.

If you believe someone from Alphalink has abused any of the conditions in this "Acceptable Use Policy", please email abuse@chariot.net.au with a detailed description where possible, including the full header of the Usenet post where in relation to spam; full headers of threatening or harassing emails; program logs of any hack attempts, including the offending IP and the time of the attempt.

 

This document last updated March 12th 2003.