Server policy of Autistici - Inventati

The criteria for participating and enjoying the services offered on this server are the condivisions of the principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, aswell as non-commercialism which keep this project alive, aswell as obviously a good dose of will to share and maintaining relations ;)))))

Spaces and services of this server are not destined for (direct or indirect) activities of commercial or clerical nature, nor for institutionlised political parties: to sum it up, any body that disposes of other powerful means to spread their own contents, or that uses the concept of (explicit or implicit) delegation to handle relations and projects.

The server only keeps the logs that are strictly necessary for debug operations.

Specific service policy:

E-Mail

To open an account on our server means also to share our Manifesto and to take note of the following:

  • Space limits on disk: The use of your account is limited by the respect owed to everybody who's using our services. Resources are scarse, the service is free and the users are many. For this reason, we invite you to limit the use you make of our disk by downloading or deleting your emails as often as possible.

  • Usage/Non-usage of this service:Mailboxes which are left unused for over 180 days will be cancelles. If you think you won't be using your account for more than 6 months but would like to keep it anyway, write to us.

  • WebMail usage: The WebMail needs a lot of the server's resources, and should be therefore only used for emergencies; for normal usage you are invited to use an email software and download your emails on your PC.

  • Password: For privacy-related reasons, we never keep any register of anybody who requests the activation of an email account. To use your email you will have to choose a simple question which will allow you to recover your password in case you lose/forget it. If you also forget the question or the answer to the question we won't be able to re-send you the data to access your account again,  but will only be able to create a new one.
    So remember to set the "recover question" in your account clicking on the link you will find in your user's panel. Remember as well to periodically change your password: you can do it by clicking on the "change password" link in the user panel.

  • Receiving Spam and Viruses: The server utilised antivirus and antispam services, but like the commercial services, they are little effective. Every mail is rated along some principles of spam mails. If the mail rank is high enough it is tagged with the word *** SPAM *** in the Subject line of the mail. You will then be able to configure your mail client to filter any spam message. We recommend you to check the emails which are "tagged" as spam, since the anti-spam filter is anything but perfect .

  • Sending Spam and Viruses: To avoid being inserted in the blacklist of half of the world, we don't want our email accounts be used for sending spam.

  • Legal responsibilities: Like for everything you do, it's also important that you know that our server is not responsible for what you write, nor for the safeguard of your own privacy. We therefore invite you to make the most of all the existing strumenti to defend your right to privacy.

Web Hosting

  • The responsibility for the content of the sites lies within the sites webmasters. The collective which runs the server Autistici-Inventati does not assume any responsibility concerning the contents of hosted sites.
    We therefore invite all webmasters to respect our principles and to request the webspace only after having read and agreed to our manifesto

  • The webspace will be conceded at exclusive judgement by the collective. Spaces for personal use will not be conceded, unless they publish materials of particular interest.

  • We remind you not to upload on the site copyright protected materials (like sometimes mp3 and divx are) that could endanger the existence of this very server (and all services conntected to it). For more information regarding this issue have a look at [BROKEN LINK: filesharing] howto.

    • When you work on your site have a thought about the battles for free sharing of knowledge that we are fighting. We hope you'll be sensitive to these struggles. So, think about us when you see the small but significant "copyright" sign down below on the bottom of a page.
    The material published on this server will have to be released at least under a free license (like for example: GPL , Creative Commons) where ever you decide to use a copyright license.

  • The limits to your webspace are limited by the machine's resources. This means that it's no good to use space for personal data or for files of big dimensions, unless it's strictly necessary.Generally, we confide in co-working.
    If you do have very big files to keep online, we invite you to use the FTP space instead of your HTML directory, and to contact us to verify the disc space availability before you upload.

  • This server intents to safeguard the privacy and anonymity of its users: Therefore it's not permitted to insert in your own pages counters or other services (like shinistat) that log the IP of who is visiting the site. In case you wish to have a counter contact us at info_AT_autistici.org.

  • When you work on your personal site think about the fact that not everyone has access to the latest existing technologies and that there are also blind people; for us accessibility of the hosted sites on this server is always important (see http://www.ecn.org/xs2web for further information on the issue of accessibility).

  • In the materiali page of our site there's a little logo of the autistici.org/inventati.org project available, and we'd be very happy to know that the sites hosted by our server display it somewhere in their homepage ;))))). Moreover, in case you are utilising your own domain (read technical notes), the inclusion of a little Inventanti/Autistici-logo on your home page is considered a little but important sign that you share and support our project.

  • It is not allowed to use the assigned space as a re-direct for other sites, as we consider this an unnecessary waste of our resources.

  • Spaces which are left unused for more than 90 days from the activation will be removed (for the same reasons as above).

  • If the use of mysql has been requested, the maintainance of your own database happens through the web interface. IT IS NOT NECESSARY, it's actually bad, to install software like phpadmin or webinterfaces similar for the administration of the account Mysql in your own web space, because we already have installed them and keeping them with a lot of love.

  • To allow interchange and communication of the various projects, all the forums are centralized

If you have further doubts have a look at our FAQ or contact us!.

Thanks to (A)iMoNDi who contributed this translation.