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Acceptable behavior: Your recognized campus organization publishes Web pages. The group's home page contains this accurate information: "Membership in [name of group] requires payment of twenty dollars annual dues."
Acceptable behavior: You use e-mail to apply for a grant that will help pay for your textbooks and travel.
Acceptable behavior: Your offspring has outgrown the infant stroller and you want to sell it. You use your University access to post a "for sale" notice to the relevant newsgroup.
Acceptable behavior: You are a student seeking summer employment, and use e-mail to communicate with prospective employers.
Acceptable behavior: You are about to graduate from Princeton, and use e-mail to communicate with potential employers.
Acceptable behavior: You are a faculty member whose scholarly publication is carried by an on-line bookseller; you make the book title on your web page serve as a "hot link" to the point of sale.
Acceptable behavior: Your recognized student organization has a CD that the group has been authorized to sell via the World Wide Web. You offer it for sale following the regulations for e-commerce established by the Treasurer’s Office.
Violation: You are an officer in a recognized University organization that is supported by fees from members and "friends of" the organization. The organization has a WWW page explaining its activities. Rather than just state that support is by subscription from members and friends and stating factual information regarding fees, you post an appeal, "Send your dollars in now! Support this cause at Princeton."
Violation: You contract with a commercial firm to include a banner ad on your Princeton University personal home page, so that you will get a small payment each time someone connects to the company's site from the banner-link on your web page.
Violation: You are a University employee who manages a summer camp for children interested in chess. You use your Princeton University e-mail address and affiliation to advertise the camp.
Violation: You run an advertisement of your own for-pay service on your web page.
Violation: You use your computer and assigned University IP address (Internet Protocol address) to register a domain and/or host a web site or operate a mail-server with a .com designation.
Violation: Without University authorization, you provide a mail exchange agent (i.e., e-mail service) for a .org domain on a computer connected to the University network.
Violation: You agree to let a commercial service use the excess capacity on your University-connected computer as a network distribution point for files or services. (Such an agreement also entails use of the University's bandwidth, which you are not authorized to assign for such purposes.)
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