Therefore, someone using email or news postings for abusive purposes can have a large financial impact on the networks involved. Aside from the financial costs, someone who has fallen victim to some sort of Internet abuse has other costs in terms of decreased effectiveness of the Internet. A newsgroup subscriber may see their favorite newsgroup overrun with meaningless off-topic advertisements, obscuring any effective information still remaining in that newsgroup. When a Hosting Solutions customer performs one of these abusive activities, Hosting Solutions pays a price as well. The additional time we have to spend responding to the complaints that pour in could be much better served doing other tasks here.
Complaints do indeed pour in.
Even if someone is using the services of another ISP to send out SPAM or UCE advertising their Hosting Solutions web site, we will get complaints. Our system is robust enough to escape most of this type of activity, but you can see that in a case like this, the effect would be that of one rogue user spoiling the party for everyone. Although we do not allow any SPAM being sent utilizing our system, we also take a very poor look at any person that sends us complaints that are forged, altered, or un-related to Hosting Solutions services. Any complaintant that causes our services to be interrupted in any way, shape, or form, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There are literally thousands of advertising and marketing resources that are effective and either low, or no cost.