The following are grounds for immediate suspension of service pending an investigation by Point To Point Access.com and may result in termination of the account(s) if the investigation determines the Customer in question originated or transmitted these types of traffic.

In addition, Point To Point Access.com reserves the right, where feasible, to implement technical mechanisms which block these activities by a Point To Point Access.com Customer as described in (a) and (b) below before such postings are forwarded:

(a) Posting a single article or substantially similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., more than 20) or continued posting of articles which are off-topic, according to the newsgroup charter, or which provoke complaints from the regular readers of the newsgroup for being inappropriate, including articles used for marketing or promoting a site which resides on the Point To Point Access.com network (Inappropriate Postings).

(b) Sending Unsolicited Business Emails (Spam) from a Point To Point Access.com Network. Spam is defined as unsolicited electronic messages.

(c) Engaging in either Inappropriate Postings (a) or Spam (b) from a provider other than Point To Point Access.com for the express purpose of marketing a site which resides on the Point To Point Access.com network, or promoting a site on Point To Point Access.com's network through Spam from a non-related network.

(d) Continued harassment of other individuals on the Internet after being asked to stop by those individuals and/or by Point To Point Access.com.

(e) Mail bombing, i.e., sending large volumes of unsolicited E-Mail to individuals or to individual business accounts.

(f) Impersonating another user or otherwise falsifying one's user name in E-Mail, Usenet postings, on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or with any other Internet service. (This does not preclude the use of nicknames in IRC or the use of anonymous remailer services.)

(g) Privacy violations: Attempts, whether successful or not, to gain access to any other system or users' private data without express consent of the user.

(h) Use of IRC bots or clonebots on Point To Point Access.com, whether on IRC servers controlled by Point To Point Access.com or by other parties. An IRC bot is a program which runs and is connected to an IRC server 24 hours a day, automatically performing certain actions.

(i) Network unfriendly activity: Attempts to interfere with the regular workings of Point To Point Access.com's systems or network connections or which adversely affect the ability of other people or systems to use Point To Point Access.com services or the Internet, including, but not limited to:

1.) any unauthorized attempts by a user to gain root access or access to any account not belonging to that user on this or any other Point To Point Access.com system;

2.) any use of this or any other Point To Point Access.com system as a staging ground to disable other systems.

(j) Any activity which violates the laws or statutes of the United States or any individual U.S. state.

Any access to other networks connected to Point To Point Access.com's Internet service must comply with the rules for that other network as well as with Point To Point Access.com rules.