FSI will provide to the account holder network services in exchange for payment of fees and acceptance of this document. Network services include access to a shared modem pool, the FSI mail server, the FSI news server, and a gateway to the Internet. FSI can not be held liable for losses incurred due to planned or unplanned outages in service.
The account holder shall provide the necessary computer, modem, and phone line necessary to access our service.
Although lower speeds may function, FSI makes no guarantees concerning the functionality of modems slower than 14.4. Modems utilizing an RPI (Rockwell Protocol Interface) chipset also may function but are not guaranteed to work with FSI.
V92 is provided by FSI for the benefit of account holders who have V92 modems. Not every account holder will be able to achieve the maximum theoretical speed of their modem due to limitations in the public phone systems. Please check your modem vendor's home page for more information on limitations.
FSI provides local dial-up numbers in Colfax, Ephrata, Lewiston, Moscow, Moses Lake, Orofino, Palouse, Pomeroy, Pullman and Yakima. FSI is not responsible for line charges incurred when dialing long distance in order to access the FSI modem pools.
FSI services include access to all publicly available resources on the internet. Some of the information available may contain language or pictures about subjects intended for adult audiences. Some information available over the internet may even be illegal to transmit or possess. Guardians of minors possessing, or with access to, FSI accounts are resposible for restricting access to objectionable material. Internet Explorer offers some basic filtering capabilities and many third party software packages are available for concerned guardians.
FSI does not censor information transmitted over our service with the exception of that information deemed illegal. Such activities may include fraud, child pornography, infringement of intellectual or property rights, hacking or otherwise seeking unauthorized electronic access, illegal export of software, spamming, distribution of virii, mail bombing, forging of electronic headers and distribution of chain or pyramid schemes. This list is representative and is not inclusive. FSI will cooperate with legal authorities in the investigation of criminal or civil infringements.
FSI respects the privacy of our account holders. While we retain the right to access personal email accounts, utilize account holder passwords and monitor system traffic, FSI will not do so except in the course of troubleshooting individual or server problems. FSI will make a good faith attempt to verify the identity of customers requesting passwords, password changes, mail forwarding, account closures or other changes in service.
FSI provides disk space for our dial-up customers to place a publicly viewable web page. This disk space is not included in our normal system backups. Backing up web page information is left to the individual account holder. FSI is not responsible for periods in which this web page is not accessible. FSI does retain the right to review the content of a customer's web space and to remove material objectionable to community standards.
The account holder acknowledges that FSI may terminate the account without notice if the account holder does not comply with the terms of this document. The account holder will be held responsible for use of the account by a third party.
FSI accounts are for account holder, and the account holder agrees to not share the account. The account holder may allow other users to utilize additional email addresses associated with the primary account, but at no time may more than one modem connection be made with the primary account. FSI software may be installed on multiple computers so long as the limit of one modem connection per primary account is respected.
Modem connections will be terminated after fifteen minutes of noninteractive activity. Noninteractive activity is the lack of modem activity caused by direct human input. This includes ping programs, automatic mail checking, automatic redialing or other computer generated activity. FSI modem pools are for the use of computers being actively used by humans.
FSI service, while having no monthly or daily limits, is not intended to provide full-time connections, and modem connections can be terminated after sessions of excessive length, currently set at eight hours. If the modem connection was actively being used, the customer may connect again for another eight hour session. FSI provides access to a shared modem pool, please allow other account holders opportunity to access this pool. Account holders should keep the connection open only when actively using it, and may not use any automatic method to avoid inactivity disconnects. Intentional use of automated methods to avoid idle timeouts of modem connections is prohibited. This includes the use of automatic redialers to reinstate an idle connection.
FSI accounts should not be used to provide access to dedicated servers such as HTTP, FTP, IRC or GAME servers. The running of such servers over an FSI connection is an unacceptable use of system resources which would negatively affect other account holders. Permission may be granted in certain cases for specific types of servers to be run. Please contact FSI if you have need to run a server.
FSI accounts should not be used in any attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems. Port scanning or sniffing, exploitation of known security holes, execution of compiled hacking tools or use of anothers' password are all grounds for termination of account.
FSI accounts should not be used to send unsolicited advertising or promotional materials to other Internet users. Electronic mail and appropriate newsgroups may be used in the conduct of legitimate business.
The account holder agrees to not, under any circumstances, post messages to newsgroups, mailing lists, or similar public forums if any of these forums pertain to subjects not directly related to the main topic of the posting or if the posting would be considered inappropriate for any other reason. This applies to both business and non-business oriented postings.
Unsolicited email, sometimes referred to as (spam), is email which is unsolicited and sent for the purpose of selling the recipient goods or services. Common forms of spam include make money fast schemes, pyramid marketing schemes, work at home schemes and questionable products or pornography. Crossposting is the simultaneous posting of identical messages, usually similar in content to spam, to multiple newsgroups. Neither spam nor crossposting are legitimate uses of FSI resources.
Any use of FSI system resources that disrupts the normal use of the system for other FSI customers, is considered to be abuse of system resources and is grounds for termination of account. To protect network resources, FSI reserves the right to restrict, limit or deny peer-to-peer file sharing protocols.
Depending on the nature and the severity of the abuse, the user may receive an email warning or have their account suspended by FSI staff. If the misuse is unintentional, the suspension may be rescinded following discussion with FSI staff. If the misuse is intentional, the suspension may be rescinded at the discretion of the Operations Manager. Occasionally, unintentional misuse is misclassified as intentional misuse. Customers who believe their activity has been misclassified may appeal to the Operations Manager.
