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AUP Policy
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Overflow believes that the Internet industry
should self-regulate behaviour on the
Internet. Such self-regulation can only work
when industry members are prepared to take a
stand against unacceptable conduct. Overflow
takes the view that the following behaviours
are unacceptable uses of the Internet and
the Overflow Network:
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SPAM:
including sending or causing the sending
of any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising, promotional materials, junk
mail, bulk unsolicited email, mail
bombing, chain letters, multiple
newsgroup cross-posting, or other form
of solicitation;
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BENEFITING FROM SPAM:
including hosting any website which, on
a regular basis, is advertised by any
person sending unsolicited commercial
email or unsolicited bulk email or spam;
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EMPLOYING IDENTITY-DISGUISING
TECHNIQUES IN CONNECTION WITH SPAM:
including relaying email via a third
party's mail server without permission,
hosting an open mail relay server, or
employing similar techniques to hide or
obscure the source of an email;
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BREACHING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS:
including hosting any content which
infringes any copyright, trademark,
trade secret, patent or other property
or other intellectual property rights of
any third party unless you are the owner
of, or have the permission of the owner
to post or transmit the content;
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SPREADING VIRUSES:
including knowingly hosting or
transmitting any content that contains
any software viruses or any other
computer code, files or programs
designed to interrupt, destroy or limit
the functionality of any computer
software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment;
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HOSTING CONTENT WHICH IS
UNLAWFUL/CRIMINAL:
including hosting or transmitting any
content the hosting or transmitting of
which would be a contravention of any
law of the Commonwealth of, or a State
in, Australia, such as, for example,
material of a pornographic nature
depicting children; and
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MALICIOUS ACTIVITY AGAINST OTHER
HOSTS ON THE INTERNET:
including:
(i) defacing of web-sites without the
permission of the website owner;
(ii) obtaining (or attempting to obtain)
un-authorised access to data by
circumventing (or attempting to
circumvent) security controls designed
to prevent un-authorised access;
(iii) the use of “probing” of devices on
the internet with the intent of
searching for and/or identifying
security weaknesses on those devices
(iv) interference with service to any
user, host or network including, without
limitation, mailbombing, flooding,
deliberate attempts to overload a system
and broadcast attacks and denial of
service attacks.
This Acceptable Use Policy may be
revised by Overflow from time to time.
V.2.4 Feb 2005
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