General

Our customers may not use our network, machines, or services in any manner which

• violates any applicable law, regulation, treaty, or tariff.
• violates the acceptable use policies of any networks, machines, or services which are accessed through our network.
• infringes on the intellectual property rights of others.

Prohibited activity includes but is not limited to unauthorized use (or attempted unauthorized use) of any machines or networks, denial of service attacks, falsifying header information or user identification information, monitoring or scanning the networks of others without permission, sending unsolicited bulk email, maintaining an open mail relay, collecting email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk email or to provide collected addresses to others for that purpose, and transmitting or receiving copyright-infringing or obscene material.

Dedicated and Webhosting Customers

Our dedicated Internet and web hosting customers who provide services to their own users must maintain valid postmaster and abuse addresses for their domains, comply with all applicable Internet RFCs, maintain appropriate reverse DNS information for all hosts receiving connectivity through our network for which DNS responsibility has been delegated to the customer, maintain accurate contact information with the InterNIC and any other appropriate domain and IP address registries, provide a 24/7 contact address to us for dealing with security and abuse issues, and act promptly to ensure that users are in compliance with our Acceptable Use Policy.

Email

Sending unsolicited bulk email is prohibited. Sending unsolicited bulk email from another provider advertising or implicating, directly or indirectly, the use of any service hosted or provided by us, including without limitation email, web, FTP, and DNS services, is prohibited and is grounds for termination of those services to customers or users who engage in the practice. Users who send unsolicited bulk email from our accounts will be charged the cost of labor to respond to complaints, with a minimum charge of $200. Customers or users who send bulk email to "opt-in" lists must have a method of confirmation or verification of subscriptions and be able to show evidence of subscription for users who complain about receiving unsolicited email.

Continuing to send someone email after being asked to stop is considered harassment and is prohibited. Using email to disrupt (e.g., mail bombing, "flashing," etc.) is prohibited. Sending email with falsified header information is prohibited. Chain letters, pyramid schemes, and hoaxes are prohibited.

Usenet newsgroups

We place no content restrictions on newsgroup postings by its users except that (a) no illegal content, including pyramid/Ponzi schemes, is permitted and (b) all postings should conform to the various conventions, guidelines and local culture found in each respective newsgroup and Usenet as a whole.

Posting 20 or more copies of the same article in a 45-day period ("spamming") or continued posting of off-topic articles after being warned is prohibited. Users who engage in spamming using our accounts will be charged the cost of labor to issue cancellations and respond to complaints, with a minimum charge of $200. Users who engage in spamming from another provider advertising or implicating, directly or indirectly, the use of any service hosted or provided by us, including without limitation email, web, FTP, and DNS services, is prohibited and is grounds for termination of those services to those users.

Excessive crossposting (Breidbart Index of 20 or greater in a 45-day period) is prohibited. The Breidbart Index (BI) is calculated by taking the sum of the square roots of the number of newsgroups each copy of an article is crossposted to. If two articles are posted, one crossposted to 9 newsgroups and the other crossposted to 16 newsgroups, the BI = sqrt(9)+sqrt(16)=3+4=7. Crossposting articles to newsgroups where they are off-topic is prohibited; a good rule of thumb is that if you are crossposting to more than five newsgroups, it's likely to be off-topic on at least one of them.

Commercial advertising is typically off-topic and/or a violation of charter in most Usenet newsgroups. Information about advertising on Usenet can be found in Joel Furr's Advertising on Usenet FAQ.

For more information on "spam," see the FAQ on Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines which is regularly posted to the news.admin.net-abuse.misc newsgroup by Chris Lewis, or visit Fight Spam!.

Posting articles with falsified header information is prohibited. "Munging" header information to foil email address harvesting by "spammers" is acceptable provided that a reasonable means of replying to the message originator is given. Use of anonymous remailers is acceptable, so long as the use is not otherwise a violation of this policy.

Users may not issue cancellations for postings except those which they have posted themselves, those which have headers falsified so as to appear to come from them, or in newsgroups where they are the official moderator.

Users are urged to familiarize yourself with the workings of Usenet by reading FAQs regarding Usenet at before becoming active participants.

The World Wide Web and FTP

Web pages and FTP files may not contain any material, text, or images, whether hosted on our servers or "transclusioned" (images from another site displayed on the page) which violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory, common law, or proprietary rights of others. Web pages and FTP files may not contain links that initiate downloads of copyright-infringing or other illegal material. Those who believe users of our services are infringing their copyrights must submit their complaints in writing to our Designated Agent to Receive Notifications of Claimed Infringement, Mike Heins, Perusion, 1506 Gilbert Ave., Coeur D'Alene, ID 83814, (208) 667-2442.

Internet Relay Chat

Using IRC bots is prohibited. Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC is prohibited. Impersonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC is prohibited.

Servers and Proxies

Customers are responsible for the security of their own networks and machines. We will assume neither responsibility nor accountability for failures or breach of customer-imposed protective measures, whether implied or actual. Abuse that occurs as a result of a compromised customer's system or account may result in suspension of services or account access by us, for example, if a system is abused after becoming infected with Back Orifice or the NetBus trojan horse programs as a result of an Internet download or executing an email attachment. (Read more about the Back Orifice program.)

Any programs, scripts, or processes which generate excessive server load on our servers are prohibited and we reserve the right to terminate or suspend any such program, script, or process.

Email Address Harvesting

Customers and users may not use programs to harvest email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or selling the addresses to others for that purpose.

Storing files

The storage of any program, utility or file on our servers the use of which would constitute a violation of this policy is prohibited. For example, it is a violation to store hacker scripts, IRC bots, or spamming software on our servers.

Perusion reserves the right to modify this policy at any time. Customers will receive prompt notification of all modifications.