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Re: DOES NETCOM TERMINATE Users Who Use Excessive Online Time?

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From: Maestro
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00
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teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger) wrote:

>In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.960825104326.18836A-100000@escape.com> "Jonathan M. Bobin" <jmbobin@escape.com> writes:
>>Dear 3133+ DAwn:
>>
>>Its impossible to get terminated, they provide unlimited, or 
>>at least advertise unlimited use of your account. If they do
>>terminate your account, you can take their sorry ass to court.
>>
>
>Bullshit!
>
>Netcom sets the policy and Netcom does infact have a policy that will
>lead to a termination of the account should you be running a tool or
>script that keeps your connection active while you are not actively
>using the Netcom service.  That is while you are sleeping or shopping or
>eating dinner or whatever..... Anytime you are not sitting at your
>computer keyboard then you are expected to log off.
>By unlimited use, Netcom has defined this as active keyboard involvement
>with you sitting in front of your keyboard and actively inputting
>keystrokes from time to time.......
>
>--
>Ciao!
>	John S. 8^{)>
>	teddybur@netcom.com
>__
>
>

What if you set Agent to download a ton of stuff from binaries groups?
I've done that before and wasn't disconnected.
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From: mitchb2@ix.netcom.com (Maestro)
Subject: Re: DOES NETCOM TERMINATE Users Who Use Excessive Online Time?
Date: 1996/08/29
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x-netcom-date: Thu Aug 29  7:36:09 AM CDT 1996
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