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- MAC-INSANITY BBS RULES & CONDITIONS OF USE
-
- ATTENTION:
- It is a criminal offence to supply a false name, and you are committing
- fraud if you do so. You may think that you will get away with doing so,
- but you will be suprised to find that 99% of people are caught.
-
- When using this system, you agree to the following rules and conditions of use:
-
- 1. "SYSOP" refers to the System Operator of The Mac-Insanity
- (N. Marburg) & (S. Marburg) and is Assistants or deputies as
- appointed from time to time.
-
- 2. "MAC-INSANITY BBS" refers to the electronic database system
- which you wish to register with.
-
- 3. Information that would compromise the national security of the
- Commonwealth of Australia is prohibited.
-
- 4. Information that violates proprietary rights or personal privacy
- is prohibited.
-
- 5. The use of Mac-Insanity you will in no way or manner
- constitute any obligation for the Sysop to provide you with
- services. Contractual rights are expressly denied. The Sysop of
- Mac-Insanity bbs and you have no form of contract whatsoever.
-
- 6. Mac-Insanity BBS attempts to encourage the free exchange of ideas,
- opinions, thoughts and information, except where usage of this
- system would violate any International, State, Federal or Local
- Government law or regulation affecting telecommunications, or
- where such action constitutes a criminal or libelous act.
-
- 7. You are obligated to inform the Sysop of your real name and to
- disclose any personal or pecuniary interest when evaluating any
- product or service.
-
- 8. You explicitly acknowledge that all information obtained from
- MAC-INSANITY BBS is without any warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied, but not limited to the implied warranties
- of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and that
- the entire risk of acting on such information obtained from
- MAC INSANITY BBS, including but not limited to the entire costs of
- any necessary remedies, belongs to those who supply such
- information and not to the Sysop of MAC-INSANITY BBS.
-
- 9. Donations towards the running costs of MAC-INSANITY BBS are gifts.
- They will not be construed as forming any contractual agreement
- whatsoever between the donor and MAC-INSANITY BBS or its Sysop.
-
- 10. Further more you are to explicitly acknowledge that all electronic
- mail posted on MAC-INSANITY BBS is to be considered the copyrighted
- works of the author, and that permission to reprint in part or in
- whole must be obtained from the author of the message and
- notification made in writing to the Sysop of your intentions. All
- views expressed in said electronic mail are not to be considered
- to be those of the Sysop in any way form or manner except where
- said message is posted and signed by the Sysop.
-
- 11. Further more you are to acknowledge that from time to time a user
- of MAC-INSANITY BBS may inadvertantly upload Commercial Software.
- Every attempt will be made to remove the offending Software from
- the BBS within a reasonable amount of time. You understand that
- this may take several days to happen and you agree to refrain from
- taking any action over the matter until the Sysop of the BBS has
- had a reasonable amount of time to remove the offending programme
- from the system.
-
- 12. You are to acknowledge that all Public Domain Software is to be
- considered the Copyrighted works of it's Author and as such may
- not be used and or sold in a commercial environment without prior
- permission of the Author of that piece of Software.
-
- 13. Trying to "hack" the system is definitely anti-social & now under
- Victorian Law is also considered to be a criminal act. I'll know
- if you try and appropriate action will be taken.
-
- 14. Don't use abusive or offensive language in any of the message
- areas.
-
- 15. Use of any of the message areas for any purpose which contravenes
- any law, State, Federal or International, is prohibited.
-
- 16. Under no circumstances is the uploading of commercial or "pirated"
- software permitted.
-
- 17. The Sysop of MAC-INSANITY BBS will not interfere with the content of
- any message posted on the BBS, unless that message should
- contravene any of the aformentioned conditions. If you have a
- legitimate complaint about the content of any message or file the
- Sysop agree's to review said message and take such action as is
- deemed appropriate without infringing on the rights of other users
- of the System to express themselves using thier legal right to
- Freedom of Speech.
-
- CONDITIONS OF USE.
- As a registered user of this system, you are obligated respect the following:
-
- (a) I am an interested user of this system, using it only for my own
- personal interest and amusement.
-
- (b) I have given the System Operator (Sysop) my real name, and if
- applicable, a pseudonym by which I may be known. I shall not
- permit any other person to use that pseudonym and/or access
- number. I acknowledge that the use of such combinations of
- electronic passwords shall have the effect as if my common
- signature was applied to a document.
-
- (c) I agree that this system is Private, and my presence here is at
- all times at the discretion of the Sysop, whose descision on such
- matters of access shall be final and binding.
-
- (d) The access of MAC-INSANITY for the
- express purpose of assessing the content for possible breach of
- any regulation shall be deemed to be an act of entrapment, and as
- such shall be considered to be an act giving rise for a complaint
- pursuant to the Compter (Crimes) Act 1989.
-
- (e) Such access as described in (d) above shall also be regarded as a
- breach of the common law right of privacy of Communication as laid
- down by Commonwealth statute, and shall also be deemed to be an
- illegal interception of a communication, and shall give rise to a
- complaint for an action under the Federal Telecommunications Act.
-
- (f) Donations towards the running costs of MAC-INSANITY are gifts.
- They are not to be considered as forming any contractual agreement
- whatsoever between the donor and MAC-INSANITY or its Sysop.
- (g) Supplying a false name will be treated as an act of fraud, and will
- be persuable under the relavant act.
-
- SEVERE PENALTIES APPLY FOR THE INTERCEPTION AND UNLAWFUL ACCESS TO
- PRIVATE DATABASES, THIS BBS IS DEEMED TO BE A PRIVATE ONLINE DATABASE,
- SECURED AND REGULATED BY THE REGISTERED SYSOP.
-