The TOS may be found at: www.cisns.net/tos.shtml.

The general concept behind this "guidelines" page is serious, though we present it in a humorous manner. Be nice to the staff and the world at large. CISNS and the staff sincerely hope that neither the TOS nor this guidelines page are ever required. We know our associates behave themselves, but this is here to cover our collective butts.

Description of service.
Use of any service, explicit or implied, for any purpose is a violation of the TOS. You are not approved to do anything on or to this machine or any machine connected to it by any means, up to and including those connected to it through IP addressing, ARP, string or thread, and administrative delusion.

Account Obligations.
If you posses an account on this machine, you are expected to maintain the security of said account. Occasional password checks that expose an account with "substandard" security will be disabled.

Some general guidlines, these guidelines are not complete. Assume that NOTHING is allowed and you will be well on your way to never violating the TOS. The partial list below indicates several activities which are certainly not allowed by the TOS.

Don't piss us off.
Don't make us talk to the police, FBI, KGB, or any other agency (foreign or domestic).(1)
Don't rip us off.
Don't get other people mad at us.
Don't steal.
Don't let anyone else use your account for any reason.(2)
Don't spam.
Don't distribute warez.
Don't litter.
Don't download a buch of crap and leave it to take up diskspace.(3)
Don't do illegal things.
Don't eat chicken.
Don't try to program in COBOL.(4)
Don't fetch porn from the terrible newsfeed and leave it laying around.
Don't make more work for anyone.
Don't touch the weasels, they are trained to kill.
Don't use a password with less than 10 characters.(5)
Don't put leaded gas in an unleaded gasoline engine.
Don't get mad at the staff if something is not available unless you pay them money.
Don't rummage about in other homedirs, it is not polite.

By following these basic guidlines and using common sense, you can manage to do whatever it is that you do and not lose your account.

Violtion of the TOS may result in cancellation of account(s) and/or legal action.

(1) This would be bad for you. We respect privacy, but we also like a stable society.
(2) This *really* pisses Dan off. He will remove your account, possibly call you on the phone and say many unpleasant things to you and may even question the marital status or drug use of your parents at the time of your conception.
(3) A "bunch" is defined here as something more than 512 bytes or 1 inode, which ever is greater, of total disk usage including the existance of your home directory itself.
(4) You can and we probably won't try to stop you, but when your fingers are warped and twisted don't come crying to us because we will laugh at you.
(5) Actually, use a lot more than 10. Use more than 20. If you're feeling anal, use more than 50.