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Our Policy On Unsolicited Bulk Email
With Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) becoming rampant on the Internet, WINCOM has taken measures to minimize the amount of "Spam" that reaches our users' mailboxes.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. It costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.
Should we acquire compelling evidence that a user of the WINCOM service is using their account to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, we reserve the right to terminate the account without refund. This is in accordance with sections A.1 and A.10 of the WINCOM Terms and Conditions of Use which all members of the WINCOM service are required to agree to upon subscription.
WINCOM is not required to do so, but we will normally issue a warning the first time we detect that UBE is being sent by a user of our service. Successive attemps to deliver UBE may lead to the termination of the user account.
We use Kai's SpamShield to monitor the amount of email our users are sending out to the Internet. Should one user send an inordinate amount of email in a given period of time, we will actually block this user from sending further email through our mail server. SpamShield will also notify us immediately when this user is blocked so that we can take immediate action against the user. We've found this to be an effective tactic, catching spammers in as little as 3 minutes of unloading their first junk messages.
What is spam?
"Spam" is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.WINCOM's policy on spam
Spam is not only an annoyance, but it costs us money to store the abundance of messages on our server. It also costs us money to transmit and receive the spam. In many cases, spam messages are get-rich-quick schemes or illegal services. For these reasons WINCOM has taken a "no tolerance" stand on spam.What is WINCOM doing to prevent our clients from sending out spam?
In addition to the above policy on spam that applies to each and every WINCOM client, we are enforcing our no-spam policy with the use of server tools to prevent outgoing spam before it ever passes through our network to the Internet.