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Spam and Message Cancellations - Spam, defined as commercial messages posted to non-commercial news groups, off topic posts to a newsgroup, or large scale redundant posts, are not permitted on the service. This may also encompass situations where binary content is being misposted to non-binary newsgroups, or where multimedia files are being posted to non-multimedia newsgroups. Since there are existing newsgroups that cater to specific binary and multimedia content, there is no reason to mispost that content into inappropriate forums. Misposting of this nature is an inconvenience to Usenet users and it creates an expiration and storage problem for the newsgroups impacted by the off-topic postings. We will do our best to screen out these types of messages arriving from feed sources, from our own servers and from outbound feeds. Users posting spam messages will be cautioned the first time, then subscription terminated or placed on permanent post restriction, on the second occurrence. Binary posts originating from commercial services that; are not graphic ads, are routinely updated and are on topic for the group, will not be canceled. These services are welcome to place their URL's in the subject line of posts. Messages that are on topic will not be canceled for content and we will not mediate disputes arising within a newsgroup. The crucial element of usenet news is freedom of speech and we will not do anything that diminishes that right.

Both RGInews and the Usenet community are adamantly against newsgroup spam. Not only is spam destructive to the newsgroups, but it is damaging to Usenet news services that waste valuable resources having to process and remove that type of content. If you spam through your RGInews account, your account will be terminated, you'll be charged a $200 fee for damages and cleanup, and you'll be banned from future use of the service.

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