I.    While the web master (that's me) does not wish to be a site policeman the following items, themes or concepts are not acceptable.

Displaying, conducting, advertising or hyper linking to:

1. illegal activities
2. "adult" content
3. bogus business "opportunities"  (see my home business opportunity page for my definition of "bogus" and a list of "bogus" opportunities to watch out for)
4. chain e-mail money making schemes

III. In the interest of maintaining a reputation of providing a fast, unencumbered and non-frustrating service to the internet community at large the following set of guidelines should be followed:

1. Limited use of frames.  The reason?  I hate frames!  They are frustrating.  They are often poorly design and even more poorly written.  They take longer to download (especially for the many "surfers" who still have 14.4 or 28.8 modem speeds).  They often do not allow me to use my built in browser capabilities that I've come to know and love so well.

   Having stated this, there are occasions when frames do make some sense.  If you really, really, really  need to use frames on your site, and you can do it within the 3 Mb limit, and you can program and layout frames properly, e-mail me with the details, and reasons, and we might work something out

2. Dates on web pages must be current.  There is nothing more frustrating than arriving at a web page, reading through the info  on it and then finding that all the dates took place three weeks (or months, or years)  ago.  What a waste of my precious time.  Each site (preferably each major page) should have some HTML text that indicates when it was last updated.  This date needs to be current.  Here are some examples:
Example 1:

You are advertising for plays, including dates,  that your theater group will be performing.  That's cool, if the dates are for current or future events.  It's not cool when the dates are for last years season.

Example 2:

You are advertising a "Big Blowout Weekend Sale".  I'm interested if the "weekend" is this coming weekend or a weekend two months from now.  If the "weekend" went by two months ago, however, I am way uninterested not to mention very, very angry.

Example 3:

Your web pages says "Updated 10/31/96".  On the internet that's the equivalent of being 6 to 8 years old.  Even if the data hasn't changed it is a courtesy to me, your average surfer, to let me know that the your site is current by changing the date to something more current.  If the data is no longer relevant delete or change it.

Example 4:

You have that infamous "Under Construction, come back in a few weeks (days, months, whatever)" in your pages.  I surf your page in four months time and find you're still "Under Construction...".  Not cool and boring.  Wake up and smell the coffee or get out of the ball game.  In other words,  revise or delete.

Note: Obviously, historical dates, like "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" do not have to be updated to "in 1998, Columbus does not sail of late" or anything like that.

3. No automated means of web page forwarding (jumping) shall be used.

   A typically example of such a device is when you access a web page and it automatically takes you somewhere else.  This frustrates me, the average web surfer, because pressing the back button takes me back to the same page, over and over again. Arrrggghhh!

IV.   The web master (that's me), an avid web surfer himself, may perform random checks on web sites on this server and has,  at his discretion, the right to first warn by e-mail and then to suspend service or terminate services in cases of abuse of this acceptable use policy & guidelines by a client.

V.   Frustrated surfers may report their complaints to the web master (that's me).  Action may or may not be taken on submitted complaints.

VI.  The web master (that's me) also reserves the right to revise, delete or add to this acceptable use policy at his discretion.

October 4, 1998

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