We will not tolerate *ANYONE* who violates our acceptable use policy. Because we are a public service we must remain as open as possible. However, we do take strict measures to ensure that a virtually anonymous user can not misuse our systems. Here is a list of features our systems possess in order to enforce our AUP: * monitored and archived logfiles (do you run identd?) * limited socket allocation (outbound connections are restricted by gid) * validation mechanism and membership levels for *trusted* priviledges * 'watch dog' process dynamically writes firewall rules against malicious hosts * dynamically updated list of known open relays and spam servers If you have received unsolicited email directly from our systems OR someone has sent/posted a message which REFERENCES an email address or URL associated with our organisation, please email the entire message (including SMTP or NNTP headers and/or logfiles with your timezone information) to ABUSE @ SDF.LONESTAR.ORG We will promptly act to resolve the issue and you may or may not receive a response from us. In nearly 99.9% of the cases we investigate, we discover that SPAM does not originate here, but rather we are only REFERENCED as a reply address or as a REDIRECT URL. Please understand our position and role as a non-profit community service. We will respond quickly remedy the situation and pass on information to the offender's down stream provider(s) |