Any maintainer whose site does not meet these minimum requirements will be notified via e-mail and given one month to bring his or her site into compliance. If the site still does not meet the requirements, and the maintainer is not making reasonable efforts to do so, then the site will be removed from the mission.net listing and will be replaced.
Don't create a page you don't plan to maintain.
Mission.net supports the ideal that each mission should have one _central_
source for information and therefore only links to one page per mission.
So, if you are not maintaining your page, you are wasting the time of other
alumni of your mission, who could be creating their own pages.
Maintainers who lose interest or no longer have time to work on their page
are asked to notify Mission.net and to transfer their page to mission.net or
ldsmissions.net so that the content is not lost while a new maintainer is
being found for their site.
Mission pages should not be transferred to people who did not serve in the
mission, if it can be avoided. Our experience has shown that, outside
of direct relatives, most persons who did not serve in the mission lose
interest very quickly in running the alumni pages, even if they live in the
mission. (Mission.net will however work in providing a temporary
maintainer if needed.)
All mission alumni pages require an e-mail address section. Whether these addresses are protected or not is up to the maintainer.
Include a link to the Mission.net index too. People will stumble upon your page, who didn't serve in your mission. Give them the opportunity to find the page for their mission.
Don't duplicate another mission page. Competing mission pages drain resources and alumni from each other.
Don't put personal items on your mission alumni home page.
Do not sell products or services on your mission page. This also extends to direct links to auction sites, as auctioning is considered selling for purposes of this AUP.
You will be subscribed to the lds-alumni-announce e-mail list, if your e-mail address gets changed, and we are not notified your page will be removed from the indexes. You can change your information at http://www.ldsmissions.net/cgi-bin/missions.pl
Mission.net has found it necessary to implement the following policies in order to improve its standard of service to both its maintainers and the alumni. The following practices will not be tolerated by Mission.net:
Unlawful activities such as unauthorized distribution or copying of copyrighted photos, materials, music files, or software, violation of trademark or other intellectual property rights, violation of U.S. export restrictions, fraud, or other practices which may be considered obscene, offensive and/or illegal.
Pagejacking, which includes stealing the look and feel of a third party web site that you do not own with or without the intention of defrauding consumers into believing that your web site is officially associated with that third-party web site.
Net mail abuse, including message delivery considered to be spamming, mail bombing (sending numerous and very similar messages to the same e-mail addresses), trolling (sending inflammatory messages with the purpose of generating greater response), subscribing others to a mailing list without permission, posting off-topic messages to news groups or discussion groups to generate web traffic, or distribution of bulk e-mail software. There are definitely other practices either unlawful or considered harassment, and Mission.net reserves the right to determine what constitutes net mail abuse.
The posting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent, or intentionally inflicting emotional distress, whether on or off of your site.
The posting of materials intended to harm another person or group, such as racist hate sites, and/or the posting of materials detailing methods of harming persons or property, such as bomb-making instructions.
Misuse of system resources, including but not limited to: knowingly employing programs which consume excessive CPU time or storage space, the resale of access to CGI scripts installed on our servers, or using Mission.net as a host to attack or compromise other systems on the Internet.
NOTE: A breach of any of the policies above may result in the permanent or temporary suspension of your Mission.net account, at our option. Mission.net will not be held responsible for any damages suffered during such forced downtime.