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Spam, email and the internet
Spam is a common expression used for junk email or un-solicited advertisements sent to you
through your email account. The term was an analogy for the meat-in-a-can product.
When you opened a can of Spam, you didn't get what you thought your were getting instead you
got something pretending to be meat.
Today you will probably receive more junk email then real email in your day to day online
activities. Many of these may have one title and then have something completely
different inside. While we oppose the sending of junk email there is really no way to
stop it entirely. You can set up junk email filters in almost every email program that
exists today. But even then some real email may be filtered into your junk folder by
accident.
The best way to combat junk email is do not purchase anything from one, ever. Even if
you find something you really want in a junk email, try to browse the internet and purchase it
from some other source. The reason why so many people are sending junk emails is because
they get sales.
We do not allow any of our accounts to be used to send junk emails. If you do send
un-solicited emails out through your email program and it is using your domain name SMTP
server (outbound) address (mail.your_domain_name.com) then we will get complaints of abuse not
only back to your server but also to ours, for providing you with the Internet server to send
them. This can put our connection to the internet in jeopardy from the companies that
provide it to us, as well as put your own internet provider in a position to close your
account and suspend your services at your local level.
See our Acceptable Usage Policy for complete
details. You will be asked to accept this policy prior to activating any account for any
hosting plan with TELEsites.net.
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Scams, email and the
internet
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Beware of the many scams that are all
over the internet these days. The latest one is an email telling you to type in your
username and password and hit a submit button or else lose your ICQ or Hotmail account.
Guess what? If you hit submit, you just sent someone your username and password for your
account. You probably will no longer get access to it as soon as they log in and change
your password. They even design the fake page to look just like the real homepage for
the service by using all the elements from the web site.
Beware of Email posing as a virus advisory. The latest fake advisory warns
users of the file "jdbgmgr.exe," purportedly a virus that damages a victim's computer system
two weeks after first infecting the PC. The hoax has been forwarded by users who believe they
have been infected and need to tell other victims to clean out the virus. The file is a
real file that Java components need to be able to run.
Bottom line: If you ever get an email and it tells you to send it out to as
many people as possible, that should give you an immediate alert, that it is not on the up and
up.
We do not allow any of our accounts to be used to send scam emails. If you do send
un-solicited emails out through your email program and it is using your domain name SMTP
server (outbound) address (mail.your_domain_name.com) then we will get complaints of abuse not
only back to your server but also to ours, for providing you with the Internet server to send
them. This can put our connection to the internet in jeopardy from the companies that
provide it to us, as well as put your own internet provider in a position to close your
account and suspend your services at your local level.
See our Acceptable Usage Policy for complete
details. You will be asked to accept this policy prior to activating any account for any
hosting plan with TELEsites.net.
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Online abuse
Purposely harassing, mail bombing, causing denial of service or any other attack on another
person or business will not be allowed by any of our hosting customers. Should we find
out about any type of abuse taking place from within your web site or through our emails
servers we will suspend your accounts.
See our Acceptable Usage Policy for complete
details. You will be asked to accept this policy prior to activating any account for any
hosting plan with TELEsites.Net.
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Our Acceptable Usage Policy
See our Acceptable Usage Policy here.
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