GetSite, in its goal to provide the best business community on the web, provides its users with a full range of commercial hosting services, primarily all of which are free. Abuse of these services is considered a violation of our Terms of Service. One of the most serious abuses comes in the form of using your account to send unsolicited commercial email, otherwise known as "spam." The following are examples of spam and are blatantly contrary to our AUP.

Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:

• Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited commercial e-mails-this is prohibited. You are not permitted to use your GetSite account or e-mail alias to send unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using a GetSite e-mail address alias to collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited. This includes using a throw-away free email account to promote your GetSite site and redirectors for same account.
• Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your GetSite account. This is strictly prohibited
• Harassment: Defined as sending threatening or harassing e-mail after being requested to stop, is prohibited. Extremely threatening or harassing e-mail is prohibited always.

Inappropriate Newsgroup Activities

• Newsgroup Spamming: Defined as excessive cross-posting, or posting the same article to several newsgroups, is prohibited. Generally accepted standards allow no more than 15 newsgroups, or cross-postings, for a single article or substantially similar articles. Such articles may be canceled. You are prohibited to use your GetSite mail alias to spam the newsgroups. You are prohibited to cross post or post off topic subjects in the GetSite newsgroups.
• Off topic or inappropriate postings: There is no restriction on content, except as defined by each newsgroup. Continued posting of off-topic articles is prohibited. Please note that commercial advertisements are off-topic in the vast majority of newsgroups.

  We take a very dim view of spam. It is one of the most annoying things encountered on the Internet. Any GetSite member found to be spamming will have their account deleted immediately - no questions asked. There is no warning or second chance. If we find that you have violated our Acceptable Usage Policy, we will report you and the incident to the proper local, state, and federal authorities and will consider prosecuting you to the full extent of the law.

  We are not attempting to censor, nor are we attempting to curtail the business of our members. But as a whole spamming hurts us and our members more than it helps the one spammer. Do yourself, and us a favor, don't do it.