Terms of Service
No Spam Policy
To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting
services to our users, Nutmeg Web Service offers users a full range of
commercial hosting services. Abuse of these services is considered a
violation of our Terms of Service/AUP ("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/AUP.
Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:
- Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited
commercial e-mails. This is prohibited. You are not permitted to use
your Nutmeg Web Service account or e-mail alias/account of your Virtual
Server to send unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using an e-mail address
hosted anywhere on Nutmeg Web Service servers to collect responses from
unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited. This includes using a
throw-away, free e-mail account to promote your Nutmeg Web Service
account and redirectors for the same account.
- Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of
unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your Nutmeg Web Service 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 Nutmeg
Web Service based mail facilities to SPAM the newsgroups.
- 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.
Fine/Penalties:
Should you violate Nutmeg Web Service's SPAM Policies, you WILL be
charged $200 per hour for the time it takes us to "clean-up" your SPAM.
This shall include but not be limited to the time required to answer
e-mail from angry recipients of your SPAM and/or repair of a damaged
server due to the "Mail Bombing" or other actions of the angry
recipients in retaliation of your SPAM. You will also be charged $20
per gigabyte of data transfer that your SPAM incurred, including
bandwidth used by answers to or complaints about your SPAM. We will
invoice this amount and should it not be paid, we will take legal
action against you in court, and/or we will contact a collection agency
to recover the funds. Please note also that it is now considered a
crime to send UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) as it falls into the
category of "junk faxes." Nutmeg Web Service will turn over all names
and personal information to the proper local, state, federal, and
international officials of any person who violates this policy.
We take a very dim view of SPAM. It is one of the most annoying things
encountered on the Internet. Any Nutmeg Web Service client found to be
spamming will have his/her account terminated immediately - no
questions asked (we will investigate the report thoroughly before
terminating any account). 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: PLEASE DON'T DO IT.
If you know of any Nutmeg Web Service client that is or might be
violating this policy, please send a message or, if possible, forward
the SPAM or UCE in full (including headers) to abuse @
NutmegWebService.com.
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