🚀 go-pugleaf

detalia@juno.com wrote:
: teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger) wrote:

: >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

: Will they terminate you if you sit in an irc channel just lurking for
: 5 hours?

On shell accounts you must do "something" within every ten minutes or so. 
If you just sit there you will be disconnected (as will most providers). 
So if you are sitting there "lurking" in IRC you must do something regularly.
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