Terms and Conditions for Dial-up Accounts
Terms and Conditions for Dedicated Business Accounts
General Acceptable Use Policies
Acceptable Use Policies for Web Sites
Acceptable Use Policies for News Groups

1. Intro
2. Filtered News Groups
3. NO Child Pornography
4. NO Pirated Software
5. Spam is Prohibited
6. Read the FAQ

Acceptable Use Policies for Web Hosting

Intro
US Net has made a concious decision to limit the number of news groups we receive to the actual number of news groups that are read on a daily basis.  This policy conserves network bandwidth while providing our customers with all of the news groups they want to read.

Filtered News Groups.  
At the request of our customers, US Net can provide an alternate collection of news groups that eliminates the news groups with sexual content.  While this can not eliminate all possibility of sexual content from news groups (due to the possibility that someone may post something inappropriate to a non-sexual news group), it does substantially reduce the possibility of encountering this type of material.  Subscribers must call the US Net business office to have this option enabled on their account.

No Child Pornography.
While we do receive news feeds for many of the adult erotic groups, US Net has banned all child pornography from our news servers.  

No Pirated Software.
News groups that support warez (illegally copied software), and certain news groups that traffic in warez, such as alt.binaries.games, are banned from our news servers.  

Spam is Prohibited.  
Posting a single article or substantially similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., more than 20) or continued posting of articles which are off-topic (e.g., off-topic according to the newsgroup charter or the article provokes complaints from the regular readers of the newsgroup for being off-topic) is prohibited.  

Read the FAQ.
Before posting a question to a news group, check the relevent answers group first (news.answers, alt.answers, etc.) to see if your question is already answered in a FAQ (frequently asked questions) document.