Cfrq.net Use Policy
This document is for authorized users and account holders of/for mail, web, and/or FTP services on cfrq.net. It explains the policies under which the administrators of the site and the server allow these users to use cfrq.net services. The contents of this document may change from time to time at the pleasure (or displeasure) of the administrators.
Cfrq.net is a non-profit hobby domain. It is run solely at the pleasure of the administration, who do it for fun and to provide mail, web, and FTP services for themselves and to projects that interest them. Because the server has excess capacity, we are happy to offer services to friends and family.
Cfrq.net is not a commercial web host or mail server. We do not have guaranteed uptime, nor do we guarantee timely responses to service requests. We try to keep services up because we use them; however, due to circumstances beyond our control, the server may go down and we may not be able to bring it back up immediately.
The server is hosted by Linode.com in Atlanta, GA, and so is subject to both The Linode.com Terms of Service, and US Government regulation. Be warned.
Because we use cfrq.net to run projects of interest to us, we have not added and may never add many advanced capabilities to the server. We do this for fun, and debugging programs and capabilities we aren't using is not necessarily fun. It's not always fun when we do it for our own stuff, but at least we enjoy the rewards in that case.
Cfrq.net management is laid back about what appears on the site and what you do with your personal email account. However, any site or account that causes us sufficient amounts of annoyance and trouble will be asked to move elsewhere at the sole discretion of the administrators. Potential causes of annoyance and trouble include:
- Commercial web activity: selling products of any sort; referral systems; honor payment systems; etc. Having your resume or portfolio on a personal site is OK, as is linking to another site where you offer goods and services for sale, but don't offer goods or items for sale on our site. It violates our charter.
- Commercial email activity: using your cfrq.net account as a business account, especially for outgoing mail; using the cfrq.net server to send commercial mail. While we do not monitor the contents of mail that passes through cfrq.net's mail server, if we receive a verifiable complaint about spam that originates from your account, we will terminate it immediately.
- Harvesting or selling our user addresses.
- Illegal activity, including but not limited to: hosting warez; using cfrq.net to hack or crack; hacking or cracking the cfrq.net server itself; violating copyright; etc. We will report the offense to and cooperate with the relevant authorities if someone uses our server to break the law.
- Adult material. We aren't prudes, but adult material attracts the wrong kind of attention from the rest of the internet, especially excessive use of bandwidth and hacker/cracker activity.
- Hacking our passwords: naughty, naughty!
- Any activity that might potentially impact on the interests of our host site.
- Breaking up with our sister.
All of these activities are also forbidden to unauthorized users of cfrq.net.
We reserve the right to request that anything that impedes our use of web or mail services be moved elsewhere. We reserve the right to request that any web page that generates complaints be moved elsewhere.
If you have any questions about something you want to host on cfrq.net, please contact the administrators before you put it up on the site. We are less cranky when people ask permission than we are when people ask forgiveness.
last updated 29 September 2006 by Harald Koch.
This document was borrowed, with permission and our thanks, from Ginger Stampley and Michael Croft, and modified to match local policies.