Spamming

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is expressly prohibited. a user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site or distributing, advertising or promoting software or services that have the primary purpose of encouraging or facilitating unsolicited commercial e-mail or spam.

it is contrary to aalpha net's solution policy for customers to use our servers to effect or participate in any of the following activities

to post to any usenet or other newsgroup, forum, e-mail mailing list or other similar group or list articles which are off-topic according to the charter or other owner-published faq or description of the group or list;

to send unsolicited mass e-mailings, if such unsolicited e-mailings provoke complaints from the recipients;

to engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another provider, but channeling such activities through a aalpha net solution provided server, or using a aalpha net solution provided server as a maildrop for responses;

to falsify user information provided to aalpha net solution or to other users of the service in connection with use of a aalpha net solution service.

when aalpha net solution becomes aware of an alleged violation of its acceptable use policy, aalpha net solution will initiate an investigation (within 24-48 hours). during the investigation aalpha net solution may restrict customer 's access in order to prevent further possible unauthorized activity. if the customer is found in violation of our spam policy, aalpha net solution may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate customer's account and/or pursue other civil remedies. also, aalpha net solution reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. if such violation is a criminal offense, aalpha net solution will notify the appropriate law enforcement department of such violation.

the customer shall be held liable for any and all costs incurred by aalpha net solution as a result of the customer's violation of these terms and conditions. this is including, but is not limited to, attorney fees and costs resulting from postmaster responses to complaints from and the cleanup of unsolicited commercial mailings and/or unauthorized bulk mailings and/or news server violations.