Claremont Unified School District

Network Abuse Policy

Goals

Claremont Unified School District's (CUSD) Network Abuse Policy goals are to protect network resources, preserve the privacy and security of CUSD and our schools' and users' networks, and maximize the utility of the Internet, while recognizing CUSD's position in the Internet community as a whole.

Interpretation

The provisions of this Policy are intended as guidelines and are not meant to be exhaustive. Other specific policies for appropriate computer use can be found at

Generally, conduct that violates law, regulation, or the accepted norms of the Internet community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Policy, is prohibited. CUSD reserves the right at all times to prohibit activities that damage its educational reputation and goodwill.

Security

Any "denial of service" attack, any attempt to breach authentication or security measures, or any unauthorized attempt to gain access to any other account, host or network is prohibited, and will result in immediate service termination, which may occur without prior notice.

E-mail and Usenet News

Using any CUSD account or server to send duplicative, unsolicited e-mail messages (commercial or otherwise), or to collect the responses from unsolicited e-mail, is prohibited.

Similarly, using any CUSD account or server to post advertisements or messages that violate the charter of any newsgroup or mailing list is prohibited.

CUSD reserves the right to make the determination whether a given message violates the newsgroup or mailing list charter. In most cases CUSD will defer to the judgment of the newsgroup or mailing list moderator or administrator.

Commercial messages that are appropriate under the charter of a newsgroup or mailing list, or that are expressly solicited by the recipients, are permitted.

Conduct in connection with e-mail or Usenet news that is an obvious nuisance (such as "mail bombing") or that would be unlawful in other contexts (for example, threats, harassment, defamation, obscenity, or software piracy) is prohibited.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

The use of IRC, MUD (Multi User Dungeons) , MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination), MOO (MUD, Object Oriented), and other real-time gaming environments are bandwidth intensive and detract from our educational purpose and mission. As such, these activities are discouraged on CUSD networks.

Using programs that interfere with others' use, or running an IRC robot, on any IRC server is prohibited. When logged into any IRC server, users are expected to comply with the rules and policies established by the server's administrator.

Forgery of Identity

Falsifying addressing information or otherwise modifying headers to conceal the sender's or recipient's identity, for the purpose of circumventing this Policy, is prohibited. This provision is intended to disallow the use of aliases or anonymous remailers for any purpose inconsistent with the educational goals or mission of the Claremont Unified School District.

Copyright, Privacy, and Intellectual Property

Using a CUSD connection to commit, aid or abet any violation of copyright or intellectual property law is prohibited.

This prohibition includes publishing a private e-mail message to third parties, by any means, without the express prior consent of the author.

The e-mail addresses of CUSD users--faculty, staff, students, or guests--are not for sale or intended for commercial distribution to third parties without the express prior consent of the individual user.

Cooperation with Other Providers

Using CUSD's facilities to engage in activities that violate the Appropriate Use Policies of CUSD, or that of any other affected network access provider, is prohibited. For example, sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) through CUSD's facilities to the subscribers of any Internet or online service provider that disallows such unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited.

CUSD will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve, and will cooperate with, law enforcement agencies if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

  • Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
  • Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
  • Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
  • Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.

Consequences of Violation

Violation of this Policy by a CUSD user may result in temporary suspension or permanent termination of service, at CUSD's sole discretion. Additional civil or criminal prosecution may result.

CUSD assumes no liability for any outages incurred through service disablement resulting from Policy violations.

Modification

CUSD reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.

Please send reports of any activity in violation of this Policy to: abuse_NOSPAM@chs.cusd.claremont.edu

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