Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:

• Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited commercial e-mails. This is prohibited. You are not permitted to use your ImHosted account or e-mail alias/account of your Virtual Server to send unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using an e-mail address hosted anywhere on ImHosted servers to collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited. This includes using a throw-away, free e-mail account to promote your ImHosted account and redirectors for the same account.
• Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your ImHosted account. This is strictly prohibited.
• Harassment: Defined as sending threatening or harassing e-mail after being requested to stop, is prohibited. Extremely threatening or harassing e-mail never is allowed.

Inappropriate Newsgroup Activities:

• Newsgroup Spamming: Defined as excessive cross-posting, or posting the same article to several newsgroups. This is prohibited. Generally accepted standards allow no more than 15 newsgroups, or cross-postings, for a single article or substantially similar articles. Such articles may be canceled. You are not allowed to use your ImHosted based mail facilities to SPAM the newsgroups.
• Off topic or inappropriate postings: There is no restriction on content, except as defined by each newsgroup. Continued posting of off-topic articles is prohibited. Please note that commercial advertisements are off-topic in the vast majority of newsgroups.

Fine/Penalties:

Should you violate ImHosted's SPAM Policies, you WILL be charged $200 per hour for the time it takes us to "clean-up" your SPAM. This shall include but not be limited to the time required to answer e-mail from angry recipients of your SPAM and/or repair of a damaged server due to the "Mail Bombing" or other actions of the angry recipients in retaliation of your SPAM. You will also be charged $20 per gigabyte of data transfer that your SPAM incurred, including bandwidth used by answers to or complaints about your SPAM. We will invoice this amount and should it not be paid, we will take legal action against you in court, and/or we will contact a collection agency to recover the funds. Please note also that it is now considered a crime to send UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) as it falls into the category of "junk faxes." ImHosted will turn over all names and personal information to the proper local, state, federal, and international officials of any person who violates this policy.


We take a very dim view of SPAM. It is one of the most annoying things encountered on the Internet. Any ImHosted client found to be spamming will have his/her account terminated immediately - no questions asked (we will investigate the report thoroughly before terminating any account). There is no warning or second chance. If we find that you have violated our Acceptable Usage Policy, we will report you and the incident to the proper local, state and federal authorities and will prosecute you to the full extent of the law.

We are not attempting to censor, nor are we attempting to curtail the business of our customers. But as a whole, spamming hurts our members and us more than it helps the one spammer. Do yourself, and us, a favor: PLEASE DON'T DO IT.

If you know of any ImHosted client that is or might be violating this policy, please send a message or, if possible, forward the SPAM or UCE in full (including headers) to abuse|@|imhosted.com.

1. Send your notification to
ImHosted™ CV email address: abuse|@|imhosted.com.
2. Include in your notification the following information
1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf (the "Claimant")
2. Identification of the copyrighted work(s) claimed to have been infringed
3. Identification of the material claimed to infringe the copyright(s), and enough information for ImHosted™ to locate it
4. The Claimant's name, address, and telephone number(s)
5. A statement that the Claimant has a good faith belief that use of the disputed material is not authorized by the copyright owner or his agent
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification of copyright infringement is accurate and that the Claimant is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.