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Exchanging email with other Internet users is generally a matter of common sense and courtesy to others. We assume the majority of Despammed customers are able to use their own sense of what is appropriate to guide their online behavior. From time to time however, we will have customers that decide that it would be fun to abuse this service with bulk mailings, unsolicited email and other forms of abuse. It is not always obvious whether such mail is innocent, inadvertent, or intentional, however, certain activities will result in action being taken by Despammed as described in Section 3 of this document. Despammed provides email services as a free service to the Internet community at large. Despammed reserves the right to change this Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for email services at their sole discretion and without prior notice. Any decision made by Despammed in relation to this service shall be final on all matters. - Email Abuse is an abuse of mail facilities and not necessarily abuse on the Internet. To qualify as Email Abuse, an act must be unwelcome as well as interfere with an individual or group of individuals in some specific way. Abuse also includes activities that are illegal or dishonest. Under the terms of this AUP, Email Abuse includes, but is not limited to, the following: - Opening an excessive number of mail connections to the same host. - Using a smarthost or SMTP relay without authorization to do so. - Serious Email Abuse via Despammed accounts will result in the following action: First offense. Second offense. - The resources we have at Despammed are free for our customers' use within the guidelines we have set. This does not mean that we allow, condone, give permission to, or support the use of our services outside of our guidelines. If you abuse our services, you will be stealing from our company. Despammed will not tolerate theft of resources.