MailRoute's Email Protection Services are designed to protect MailRoute, MailRoute's customers and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy is a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by MailRoute. MailRoute reserves the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at:

http://www.mailroute.net/agreements/aup.html

Prohibited uses include:

a. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

b. Sending unsolicited mail messages, including the sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material (e.g., e-mail spam). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk-mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, and political tracts. MailRoute accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider.

c. Unauthorized use, or forging, of mail header information (e.g., spoofing).

d. Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., cracking).

e. Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment.

f. Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any MailRoute customers or end-users by any means or device.

g. Knowingly engaging in any activities that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., mail bombs) to any MailRoute customers or end-users whether on the MailRoute network or on another provider's network.

h. Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send email spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.

i. Using MailRoute's Services to interfere with the use of the MailRoute network by other customers or authorized users.

Each MailRoute customer is responsible for the activities of its customer base/representatives or end-users and, by accepting service from MailRoute, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of a MailRoute customer will be forwarded to the MailRoute customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the MailRoute Acceptable Use Policy occur, MailRoute Customer Service reserves the right to terminate services or take action to stop the offending customer from violating MailRoute's AUP as MailRoute deems appropriate, without notice.

This AUP is available for review at the AUP website and may be revised from time to time upon posting to the AUP website.

MailRoute's Acceptable Use Policy for MailRoute services effective 9/1/2003

Report policy violations to: abuse@mailroute.net