Goals
pc|mac's goals are to protect network resources, preserve the privacy and security of pc|mac and our customers' networks, and maximize the utility of pc|mac and the Internet, while recognizing pc|mac's position in the Internet community as a whole.

Interpretation
The provisions of this Policy are intended as guidelines and are not meant to be exhaustive.

Generally, conduct that violates law, regulation, or the accepted norms of the Internet community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Policy, is prohibited. pc|mac reserves the right at all times to prohibit activities that damage its commercial reputation and goodwill.

Security
Any "denial of service" attacks, any attempt to breach authentication or security measures, or any unauthorized attempt to gain access to any other account, host or network is prohibited, and will result in immediate service termination, which may be without notice.

Email and Usenet News
Using any pc|mac e-mail account, connection or server to send duplicative, unsolicited e-mail messages (commercial or otherwise), or to collect the responses from unsolicited e-mail, is prohibited.

We realize that our customers may have need to send mass-mailouts for legitimate commercial purposes. Any such mailings must strictly adhere to the antispam guidelines incorporated here by reference. Be sure your company is in compliance with the new federal CAN-SPAM Act which takes effect January 1, 2004!

Similarly, using any pc|mac account or server to post advertisements or messages that violate the charter of any newsgroup or mailing list is prohibited.

pc|mac reserves the right to make the determination whether a given message violates the newsgroup or mailing list charter. In most cases pc|mac will defer to the judgment of the newsgroup or mailing list moderator or administrator.

Commercial messages that are appropriate under the charter of a newsgroup or mailing list, or that are expressly solicited by the recipients, are permitted.

Conduct in connection with e-mail or Usenet news that is an obvious nuisance (such as "mail bombing") or that would be unlawful in other contexts (for example, threats, harassment, defamation, obscenity, or software piracy) is prohibited.

pc|mac reserves the right to implement "spam filters" or other automated methods of securing our networks and our customers against unsolicited e-mail and unauthorized e-mail relaying. For those customers who request it, we use the ordb, habeas, mail-abuse, spamcop and spamhaus systems to block all e-mail originating from known open-relay servers, and our filtering software also blocks or tags suspected spam based on content-analysis.

pc|mac further reserves the right to report to appropriate upstream providers and legal authorities any abuses of our network which are originated by parties outside pc|mac and our customers.

Facilitating a Violation of this AUP
Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mailbombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
Using programs that interfere with others' use, or running an IRC robot, on any IRC server is prohibited. When logged into any IRC server, users are expected to comply with the rules and policies established by the server's administrator.

Forgery of Identity
Falsifying addressing information or otherwise modifying headers to conceal the sender's or recipient's identity, for the purpose of circumventing this Policy, is prohibited. This provision is not intended to disallow the use of aliases or anonymous remailers for any legitimate purpose.

Copyright, Privacy, and Intellectual Property
Using a pc|mac connection to commit, aid or abet any violation of copyright or intellectual property law is prohibited.

This prohibition includes publishing a private e-mail message to third parties, by any means, without the express prior consent of the author.

The e-mail addresses of pc|mac customers are not for sale or commercial distribution to third parties without the express prior consent of the customer.

Claims of Copyright Infringement
The Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement is:

pc|mac CopyrightAgent
851 South Beltline Hwy, Suite 504
Mobile, AL 36606
Telephone: (251) 476-3081
Facsimile: (251) 476-3083

email:

Cooperation with Other Providers
Using pc|mac's facilities to engage in activities that violate the Terms of Service of any other network access provider is prohibited. For example, sending unsolicited commercial e-mail through pc|mac's facilities to the subscribers of any Internet or online service provider that disallows unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited.

Consequences of Violation
Violation of this Policy by a pc|mac customer may result in temporary suspension or permanent termination of service, at pc|mac's sole discretion.

pc|mac does not issue service credits for any outages incurred through service disablement resulting from Policy violations.

Violation of this Policy by third parties may result in legal action and/or consequences from the offending party's Internet Service Providers.

Modification
pc|mac reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.

Please send reports of any activity in violation of this Policy to: