(parts of which were stolen from attrition.org {okay, so I got the 'okay', but it sounds
cooler if I say I stole it... sigh...})
This is a personally owned and privately operated system. You have no rights here.
Any mail entering this system becomes the sole property of
yespinky.com or the residents thereof. By mailing any address at yespinky.com, you forfeit any claim of copyright. E-mail, book
reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, commentary and all other submitted
work become copyrighted to yespinky.com and anyone designated therein. E-mail confidentiality
agreements and disclaimers are invalid for mail coming into this system.
Mailing anyone at yespinky.com denotes your agreement with these rules.
Don't agree? Then don't mail me.
I block systems that send me spam.
If you are having a problem mailing me
and keep getting an insulting error, you are sending mail from a machine or
mail relay that has sent me spam in the past. Inactive administration causes these
systems to stay blocked. Feel free to mail me if you think this is unfair or
would like the block lifted, but don't hold your breath. Please note, many addresses here
run a spam filter, SpamAssassin. If you send mail to me
and it doesn't get answered in a few days, verify your mail doesn't have characteristics
or signatures of spam. For the spam harvest software that doesn't actually
read pages, enjoy the attrition.org harvest page.
I will block incoming mail (SMTP) traffic as I see fit. Domains
that do not follow RFC guidelines will be blocked. Specifically, not following
RFC 2142 (section 4) and
RFC 2821 (section 4.5.1) will result in your entire domain
being blocked from sending me e-mail. I don't care if you are a national ISP with
a few million customers.
I will block incoming web (HTTP) traffic as I see fit. Browsers/clients that
spoof user agents or HREF's will also be blocked at our discretion. Specifically,
not following RFC 1945 (section 10.13 and 10.15) or
RFC 2616 (section 14.36 and 14.43) will result
in your domain or client being blocked.
Our ISP is not responsible for OUR content. This has been the case for a long time
and upheld in court repeatedly (see below). More recently, the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) specifically states in Title II, Sec. 202,
512:
"(a) TRANSITORY DIGITAL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS -- A service provider shall not
be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for
injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason
of the provider's transmitting, routing, or providing connections for, material
through a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider,
or by reason of the intermediate and transient storage of that material in the
course of such transmitting, routing, or providing connections, if-
``(1) the transmission of the material was initiated by or at
the direction of a person other than the service provider;
``(2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or
storage is carried out through an automatic technical process
without selection of the material by the service provider;
``(3) the service provider does not select the recipients of the
material except as an automatic response to the request of an-
other person;
``(4) no copy of the material made by the service provider in
the course of such intermediate or transient storage is main-
tained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily acces-
sible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such
copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordi-
narily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer pe-
riod than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing,
or provision of connections; and
``(5) the material is transmitted through the system or net-
work without modification of its content.
For those who didn't read the legalise above, it states that ISPs
are NOT liable for customer content. Previous case law further shows this is true:
If you try to mail our ISP they will have absolutely NO control over our content. If
they threaten to drop our connection, I will move the content to another server
outside the US, to a more friendly ISP with backbone or to a server in international waters (outside of any
legal jurisdiction). In short,
legal threats are NOT a valid tactic against me.
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This is your warning. If you do not wish to browse that type of
material, hit your back button at least twice. Make sure there
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are unsure what this means, click here.
I really don't care. I don't need your feedback. Your flames, insults,
begging and other tripe will potentially be used on my funstuff
page or sent to anyone I choose. I will include any portion of your mail on that page if we see fit, including
full headers and x-originating-ip if I choose. Let
me repeat this so we are clear: I DO NOT CARE.
Privacy Policy: You have no privacy whatsoever.
If you have a complaint, question, problem, or anything associated with those words, mail ME please.
Please address these grievances with me. I do not
guarantee I will comply with your wish, but I will give it the due attention I feel
it deserves. Polite and valid requests will be complied with quickly and professionally.