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Net Abuse
Net Abuse is defined as a committed abuse against an Internet, Intranet, or Network based computer system or service.  This document sets forth the VFW Post 3115 Network Abuse Policy and supersedes any other written or oral policy.  The VFW Post 3115 may modify this Policy as reasonably required.  The provisions of this Policy are intended as guidelines and are not meant to be in-depth.   Any activity or conduct that violates law, regulations, or may harm VFW Post 3115 equipment, reputation, goodwill or member's relations, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Policy, is strictly prohibited.  The VFW Post 3115 reserves the right at all times to revise its Net Abuse Policy and to take any appropriate actions to address violations of this Policy as outlined. 

System and Network Security
It is the goal of the VFW Post 3115 to secure, protect, and preserve the personal privacy and data stored on or over its' servers and networks.  This "implied agreement" between the VFW Post 3115 and its' Members (customers) includes the forgoing:

1. Customers may not tamper with other customer accounts, commit unauthorized intrusion into any part of the VFW Post 3115 network or systems, or use any of the VFW Post 3115 equipment, files, accounts, or systems to intrude into any other network.

2. Customers may not circumvent security (or assist others to circumvent security), in order to access services for which that person accessing those services has not entered into a binding agreement with the VFW Post 3115.  This includes, and is not limited to, the scanning of the VFW Post 3115 computer systems or other networks with intent to breach and/or evaluate its' network security.

3. Customers may not use the VFW Post 3115 computer systems in a manner that overloads disk space, processors, or other system resources beyond those allowed by Customer's specific type of account.  Customers may not make deliberate attempts to interfere with a service, overload of a service, or attempt to disable a host.

4. The use or attempted use of Internet services or systems without authorization is strictly prohibited.  This includes, but is not limited to, password cracking, defrauding others into releasing their passwords, denial-of-service attacks (sending packets with an illegal packet size, UDP flooding, ping-flooding, half-open TCP connection flooding, etc.).   Additionally, Customers may not use programs, scripts, commands, or otherwise send messages with the intent to interfere with any Customer's use of service.

Unlawful, Harmful or Offensive Communications
It is a violation of this policy for a Member or Customer to knowingly use the equipment or services of the VFW Post 3115, to create, transmit, post or otherwise make available through the Internet any material that is unlawful, abusive or harmful to the VFW Post 3115 members or customers, goodwill or reputation.  Communications prohibited by this Policy include, but are not limited to, materials that infringe upon copyright, trademark or other intellectual property, obscenity, indecency, child pornography, and any form of defamatory communications.  The VFW Post 3115 utilizes public and private security means to ensure that any information or data transmitted to and from this system is secured.  This computer system, including all related equipment, networks, and network devices (includes internet access) are provided for authorized use only.  Members or Customers engaged in conducting business with the VFW Post 3115 constitutes authorized use.  This computer system is monitored for all lawful purposes, including ensuring your access is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures and operations.  Monitoring includes, and is not limited to, active tracing to verify authorization to our systems.  During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes.  All information, including personal information, placed on or sent over this system, may be monitored.  Use of this system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to monitoring.  Unauthorized use of this computer system will subject you to criminal prosecution.  Evidence of unauthorized use collected during monitoring will be used for administrative, criminal, or other adverse actions.  Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for all lawful purposes.

Email - Technical Standards for Email Delivery
The following technical requirements apply to the delivery of Internet Email through the VFW Post 3115 Email system:

  • VFW Post 3115 Email servers will not accept connections from unsecured systems.  These include open relays, open proxies, open routers, or any other system that has been determined to be available for unauthorized use.
  • VFW Post 3115 Email servers may not accept connections from systems that use dynamically assigned or residential IP addresses that have been determined to be sources of spam or viruses.
  • The VFW Post 3115 Email servers will not deliver Email that contains a hex-encoded Universal Resource Locator similar to the following format:   http://%6d%6e%3f/
  • The VFW Post 3115 Email servers will reject connections from any IP address, or host, that does not have a valid reverse - DNS record (a PTR record).
  • VFW Post 3115 Email servers may reject connections from servers whose recipient lists consistently generate a higher than 10% bounce failure rate.  (i.e. over 10% of a sender's mailing list is destined for users that do not exist on our system.)
  • VFW Post 3115 Email servers may reject connections from senders who are unable to accept at least 90% of the bounce-return messages (mailer-daemon failure/error messages) destined for their systems.
  • Verifiable complaints submitted by the VFW Post Members or Customers will be used as a basis for refusing connections from any Email server.
  • The VFW Post 3115 Email servers may provide daily communications to postmaster@domain.name and abuse@domain.name (or @IP.address if no reverse-DNS or PTR records are present) from senders who may be in violation of the VFW Post 3115 Acceptable Use Policy and guidelines.
  • The VFW Post 3115 Email servers does not authorize the use of its' Email system to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk Email.

Kansas Statutes 50-6,107 Commercial Electronic Mail Act; et al
Please Note: The VFW Post 3115 uses its' member and customer feedback to assist in the identification of the sources of Unsolicited Bulk Email along with Global Information Systems.

1. VFW Post 3115 Members or Customers may not send unsolicited commercial Email to any other VFW Post 3115 Member or Customer account that has not specifically requested such information or that causes complaints from the recipients of such unsolicited Email.  The VFW Post 3115 Email services may not be used to send unsolicited Email or advertising messages to any other person(s) or any other server system(s) world wide.  Members or Customers may not flood or spam any newsgroups with commercial or non-commercial postings.

2. Any use of the VFW Post 3115 Email system for the composition, distribution, or collection of bulk Email, abusive Email, or any form of unsolicited, commercial Email is strictly prohibited.  The VFW Post 3115 prohibits the transmission or retransmission of any Email to non-consenting recipients that is harassing, libelous, defamatory, threatening, abusive or hateful.

3. The sending, forwarding, or propagation of any chain letters of any type (including charity requests [Post By-Laws, Article X, Section 1, Paragraph a] or petitions for signatures) is strictly prohibited.

4. "Mail-bombing" (i.e. flooding a Member or Customer's account with large or numerous Email messages) is strictly prohibited.  Members and Customers may not alter or forge Email header information.