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The content of all
discussion groups, including without limitation, the descriptions for discussion groups
and the content within a specific article, is provided by and is the responsibility of the
creator of the discussion group or the person posting an article. usenetserviceprovider.com has NO responsibility for such content and is
merely a conduit of articles traveling across Usenet. Usenet in general is a public forum
much like the world wide web is available to the public. usenetserviceprovider.com
does not control Usenet.
All articles on
our servers are pushed to our servers via our upstream providers, including large
international corporations. usenetserviceprovider.com receives well over
2 million articles per day, and it is impossible for us or any other corporation running a
Usenet server to moderate newsgroups. Currently there are no state or federal laws that
require any ISP to moderate Usenet newsgroups.
By its very
nature, Usenet groups may carry very offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise
inappropriate material, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are
otherwise deceptive. We expect that you will use caution and common sense and exercise
proper judgment when using Usenet, as well as use the service at your own risk.
Again we must
emphasize that it is impossible for us or any other Usenet service to police hundreds of
thousands of articles that pass through our servers everyday. Any article that passes
through our servers is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY of the person who posted the article or
created the newsgroup.
usenetserviceprovider.com does
not produce any content that passes through our servers.
usenetserviceprovider.com does
not publish any content that passes through our servers. What we mean when we say publish
is that we DO NOT extract pictures or programs from usenet for redistribution by various
means, such as putting them on CD-ROM or making slide shows or putting them in zip files
for download.
usenetserviceprovider.com
does not condone nor
support people posting copyrighted or illegal content to Usenet. If you discover an
article that contains any copyrighted or illegal content please follow the guidelines contained in our copyright policy. We will then
have the offending article removed IMMEDIATELY, and forward any and all relevant
information to the appropriate federal law enforcement authorities.
The
name of a newsgroup is not illegal in nature and does not necessarily imply inappropriate
or illegal activity. However we encourage customers to exercise caution and discretion
when viewing and posting to all Usenet newsgroups. All content, without limitation, is
provided by and is the responsibility of the person posting the content. We expect all
customers to abide by Usenet etiquette, copyright laws, and civil and criminal laws.
Download Transfer Limits
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Acceptable Conditions of Use rules apply, even if there is no set download byte limit
(i.e.. Unlimited ). There is also a simultaneous connection limit (per username/IP-number)
depending on account subscription. We reserve the right to modify these settings at any
time without notification. You agree that usenetserviceprovider.com
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ACCEPTABLE C O N
D I T I O N S O F U S E:
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continuous downloading usage of Unlimited accounts. usenetserviceprovider.coms' Unlimited
account does not constitute a dedicated connection. If a customer appears to be unable to
maintain a reasonable use of the service, usenetserviceprovider.com may cancel, suspend,
or decline to renew service for that customer without notice. It is within
usenetserviceprovider.coms' sole discretion to determine what comprises unreasonable use.
accounts are for individual and/or personal use only. Any non-individual use, or any use
that is indistinguishable from non-individual or personal use, is prohibited. Usage that
can not be considered "individual or personal" also includes excessive
continuous downloading (of) or from any newsgroup(s), 24/7 downloading, or similar
activities, likewise you may NOT use a personal account to feed a news server, news
caching server, or similar. Any such use will be grounds for immediate account
termination. For example, the following uses are prohibited:
-Under no
circumstances may a subscriber share their account or login information with any third
party whatsoever.
-Simultaneous
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-Connecting from a
proxy of any kind
-Using DNEWS,
NetCache, or any other multi-access caching system
-Excessive download
volume
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terminate, or refuse service to anyone, at any time, for any reason. NO refunds will be
issued if your account is suspended and/or canceled for any of the above reasons.
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I am at least 18
(21 where required) years of age and have the legal right to possess adult material in my
community.
COMMUNITY
STANDARDS
I understand the
standards and laws of the community, site and computer to which I am transporting this
material, I am solely responsible for my actions, posting of illegal media is prohibited,
violators will banned from our servers.
COPYRIGHT AND
RESPONSIBILITY
I will not sell,
redistribute, or copy in any way the contents of this site. I will not allow anyone to use
my username, password. If I do post, I do so at my own risk.
SPAM AND
FLOODING
We have ZERO
tolerance for Spammers or Flooders. Posting is a privilege, not a right, if you post SPAM
and or flood any group, your account or posting privileges may be revoked WITHOUT PRIOR
WARNING, and you may be billed (at the discretion of the System Administrator) for the
cleanup, at $200.00 (US) per hour, plus any Collections and or Attorney's fee's incurred
in collection of this fee. What is SPAM? it is any post(s) that is unwanted, in the group
it was posted to, in short if a group has a FAQ against commercial ad's, and you post a
commercial ad(s), on topic or not, and your reported, you are Spamming. What is FLOODING?
it is the act of filling a group(s), with unwanted posts that are on, or off topic,
pushing your point, freedom of speech is important, but not to the point of damaging any
person, and or group to prove your point of view. If your posting access is disabled, it
will remain so indefinitely. No refunds will be issued for this reason.
FORBIDDEN
ACTIVITIES
usenetserviceprovider.com has a zero-tolerance policy for the following
activities, and performing any of them will cause permanent suspension of your posting
ability. These activities include, but are not limited to:
- Flooding: Attempting to take over a newsgroup by flooding it with your posts.
- Trolling: Harassing or annoying other newsgroup users repeatedly.
- Copyright Infringement: Posting anything that is not in the public domain and that you
do not own the rights to. This is a serious crime carrying serious legal consequences!
- Posting Illegal Content: Posting anything that is not legal in the United States.
- Posting Off-Topic: Posting something that does not belong in that newsgroup, as
indicated by its charter or FAQ article.
- Crossposting: Posting the same article to more than three newsgroups is prohibited. The
article posted must be on-topic for each group it is posted to.
- Harassment/Cyberstalking: Threatening or provoking confrontation with another party,
causing fear for ones personal safety. Posting anyone's personal information such as
phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers, etc. without that person's prior
consent also falls under this category. Report abuse issues here.
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VIOLATIONS
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federal and or civil laws. I agree to be responsible for all legal fees and loss of any
income due the owners, Corporate Officers of this site. I understand that my membership
will be canceled without notice or refund.
USE OF
INFORMATION
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Corporate Officers, and/or creators of this site in any type of action, legal or
otherwise.
CANCELING AND
REFUNDS
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has been forcefully refunded or charged back, you will be in violation of this agreement.
You may cancel your membership at any time, to do so send an email to support@usenetserviceprovider.com along with your account username and password.
Your account will then be cancelled at the end of your subscription period. Chargebacks or
forced refunds from your account will also cause you to be listed in an online fraud
database. This will prevent you from using your credit card, or phone number on the
internet again with thousands of companies that use CCBILL. for their online billing. If
you were never assigned a username and password due to an error on the part of usenetserviceprovider.com, we will activate your account and compensate you
(with extra time) for any lost time. We will not issue refunds for any other reason, with
the exception of fraud (read below for details). Even if you do not, or can not access our
service because you are unable to properly configure a software news reader program or any
other reason, there are still no refunds given. Even if you have just joined and
immediately cancel, full
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our FAQ.
FRAUD
If your credit
card or phone number was fraudulently used to gain access to this service, Email a copy of
the Police Report to us at webmaster@usenetserviceprovider.com.
We will have CCBILL. refund the charge and have your credit card or phone number blocked
from anyone ever using it with CCBILL. again. We will provide this information to the FBI
and/or Interpol for substantiation of criminal fraud charges. We take fraud very
seriously, and will press charges, both criminal and civil. Users who commit fraud by
gaining access to our sites and then by what ever means obtains refunds, are committing
fraud against a corporation in interstate commerce.
A Note from our
billing company regarding refunds and fraud claims:
It should be noted
that, with very few exceptions, every credit card refund results in that card number being
entered into CBILL's negative database. This is our in-house record of past problem
customers. Yes, it's possible for a never-before-encountered credit card number to
fraudulently buy from one CCBILLclient... once. After that, the card number is forever
blocked from purchasing anything from any CCBILL client.
Anyone who thinks
about requesting a refund by falsely claiming his card was used fraudulently had better be
sure that he will never again want to use that card on thousands of web sites. Even if the
charge arrived on your statement because someone else used your card (my son did what???),
CCBILL has to assume that if it happened once it might happen again. If someone unknown to
you is placing charges on your credit card, now would be a very good time to call your
credit card issuer, cancel that card number and start over with a new one.
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ACCOUNT SETUP
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If you believe that you will find the content to be offensive, inappropriate, or in
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It is also
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information, similar to the way that a public square could be the forum for discussion of
ideas, thoughts, and information.
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whether or not a posting will violate a law, that person is urged to contact the
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locality, state, and even federal laws for all material that is posted to this site. As
such, usenetserviceprovider.com is not responsible for the content
of this site.
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to protect or defend itself, or otherwise
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limited to, defamation, libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress, copyright
infringement, trademark infringement, theft of a trade secret, economic espionage, and
transmission of pornographic material.
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other activity.
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and all liability which might arise.
MODIFICATIONS
TO SERVICE
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