Hello accmailers ... Our www4mail server at szs.net has been running for about 15 months now. On the whole, there have been very few problems. Thanks to the help we have received from Perl coders on this list, we think it is now one of the most reliable ACCMAIL resources.
This is a good opportunity to remind our users -- especially new users -- of our attitude to pornography and cracks/wares sites. It's a Zero Tolerance policy! That means if you attempt to access porn or illegal sites, you will be permanently banned from using www4mail at szs.net -- even if you only do it once, and even if you fail, you will be banned. Also our policy is retrospective -- if we discover an attempt a year ago, we will ban you now. Banning is silent. We do not inform you that you have been banned -- we just do it. There is NO appeal, and NO discussion. We make sure that email from banned addresses is discarded, so we never see it. Furthermore, we ensure that banned addresses have no privacy. We do not keep access logs for very long, but we filter banned addresses into a permanent log, so we have a record of all attempts to abuse this service. At one time, we were tempted to ban all users from Russia and Ukraine (most offenders are from those two countries), but now we are pleased we did not take this drastic step. In practice, abusers are a small minority -- less than 40, far fewer than we had been warned. Nevertheless, our Zero Tolerance policy is the reason this service still exists. Nearly everybody uses it responsibly, and we are especially pleased that it is being used by so many students and staff of universities, hospitals and medical schools, and by ordinary citizens of countries where access to the WWW is problematic. That is what our www4mail is for, and we will keep it going for as long as we can. I think we have made our point! ::: SZS ::: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. WWW: http://emailonly.szs.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
