Policies

2.1. KDSI accounts may be used only by the authorized owners of the accounts. Revealing your account username or password to others or allowing use of your account by others is prohibited.

2.2. Resale, trade or transfer any account without express written consent from KDSI is prohibited. Attempting to obtain access beyond that for which a customer is authorized will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account.

2.3. Attempting to defeat identification procedures, gain passwords or encryption codes, penetrate security measures, circumvent user authentication or use of the KDSI network to gain unlawful or unauthorized entry to another machine on the Internet; use of an KDSI account to or attempt to alter or destroy data belonging to KDS Internet or another user on any computer network; and use of the KDSI system as a staging ground to "crack" other systems will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account.

2.4. Transmission, redistribution, reproduction or commercial exploitation of information available on KDSI's network without the permission of its owner or in violation of applicable copyright laws or patents will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account.

2.5. Abusive or inappropriate use of any KDSI Internet service, including any behavior which disrupts the normal use of the system or Internet services of others, inhibits any user from accessing the Internet, interferes with the proper operation of KDSI's network or impairs the availability, reliability or quality of KDSI service for other customers will be subject to the sanctions described below.

2.6. KDSI does not censor the content of any newsgroups. We believe such choices should be left to the individual, however KDSI does expect its customers to follow the generally accepted rules of Netiquette.

2.7. In general it is also contrary to the specific policies of KDSI for any user to effect or participate in any of the following activities;

2.7.1. using an account to offer any public information service, such as running a web server or FTP server, without the written consent of KDSI;

2.7.2. exporting software or technical information in violation of U.S. export control laws;

2.7.3. making fraudulent offers of items, products, or services originating from a customer's account;

2.7.4. using non-authorized relays through any third party systems;

2.7.5. "flooding" or overburdening recipient computer systems by sending a high volume of spurious data which impedes functionality or disables the recipient system, or any other methods of denial of service of another;

2.7.6. storing or distributing on KDSI servers illegally-acquired information, programs containing malicious code, including viruses, trojans or worms or tools to compromise the security of other sites;

2.7.7. using programs such as packet sniffers, host and/or service monitoring or other similar programs;

2.7.8. engaging in any of the above activities using the service of another provider but channeling such activities through a KDSI account or re-mailer or using a KDSI account as a mail drop for responses;

2.7.9. directing commercial advertising to groups in violation of their charters;

2.7.10. publishing or distributing obscene or defamatory materials; and

2.7.11. willfully violating the posted Acceptable Use Policy of any Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network.