To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting
services to our users, Kmet Hosting 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 Kmet Hosting account or e-mail
alias/account of your shared hosting account to send unsolicited
commercial e-mail. Using an e-mail address hosted anywhere on
Kmet Hosting servers to collect responses from unsolicited commercial
e-mail is prohibited. This includes using a throw-away, free e-mail
account to promote your Kmet Hosting account and redirectors for
the same account.
Mail Bombing: Defined as sending
large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your Kmet
Hosting 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 10 newsgroups, or cross-postings, for a single article
or substantially similar articles. Such articles may be canceled.
You are not allowed to use your Kmet Hosting 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 Kmet Hosting's SPAM Policies, you
WILL be charged $100 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 $25 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, 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."
Kmet Hosting 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 Kmet Hosting 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.
If you know of any Kmet Hosting 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@kmethosting.com.