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NETLINK's Anti Spam Policy |
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What
is SPAM?
Spam is abuse of an e-mail service where a user sends unsolicited messages
to one or more e-mail addresses with the intent of commercial advertising,
harm, or for any other reason. Netlink does not permit such misuse of
its e-mail server and will take action if necessary.
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New
Implementations
Netlink has implemented software in order to deter the possibility
of SPAM through its mail server(s). Although this will not eliminate SPAM
entirely, we believe it will eliminate the majority of the problem.
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Why
the new software?
SPAM and Mail Relay is considered to be "Theft of Service". Internet users
do not pay their access fees for the purpose of being solicited. Since
the original ARPAnet, the written rules of the Internet community (see
the Netiquette RFCs and their precursors from Usenet) have required that
we each refrain from intentionally soliciting other Internet citizens.
Mail servers are judged and can be placed on an RBL, or Realtime Blackhole
List, which means that the email server is friendly, or at least neutral,
to spammers. Netlink wishes to comply with standards to avoid being placed
on these lists and keep the Internet a friendly place. We will be closely
monitoring the new software to make sure that we are in compliance with
these standards. For more information on RBL’s, you can go to http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/.
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New
Policies
Netlink
does not encourage, practice, or in any way support the use of it’s mail
server for SPAM, Mail Relay or any other unsolicited e-mail. Netlink will
use all resources available to prevent SPAM. If you are NOT connecting
through Netlink you will not be able to use a Netlink e-mail account to
send email to an outside domain, unless you first connect to the server
and check for incoming mail. You will NOT be able to send an outbound
e-mail that is larger than 2 Megabytes in size. You will NOT be able to
send one email to more than 20 recipients at a time.
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Penalties
These are the policies of Netlink. Failure to comply with these rules
or any other rules may result in penalties up to and including termination
of Internet service. If you have any questions or concerns you may call
our Netlink Helpdesk staff at 1-800-734-7467 or email us at nsc@gpcom.net.
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