Acceptable Use Policy

This document sets forth what types of content or scripts may not be used on Scribehost accounts; and what types of activities are prohibited. Scribehost will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this acceptable use policy. The short version of this document is: Scribehost members may not do anything with their account resources either abuses or misuses system resources; or that breaks United States federal, state, or local laws. If you are found to be doing anything with your Scribehost account that could get you or Scribehost in legal trouble or could compromise the security of Scribehost's servers, your account may be immediately suspended or terminated. If that ever happens you'll never be able to get another account with us — not to mention the boatload of bad karma you'll find on your cosmic tallysheet.

Prohibited Content

Member accounts shall not be used to store or transmit any material that is in violation of any United States federal, state, or local law. Prohibited materials include, but are not limited to:

  • pornographic material1
  • sex- or adult-entertainment merchandising
  • materials which infringe on copyrights2
  • pirated software, including lists of serial numbers
  • hacker programs
  • material which is intended to be used to circumvent the law
  • material that is defamatory or abusive in nature
  • links to any of the above

Prohibited Activities

Hosting accounts are to be reserved for the use of direct Scribehost members. You may not host remote scripts or programs; resell your disk space or account utilities; allowing use of the server, FTP, mail services, mail forwarders, autoresponders, for anything other than the member account; resell or otherwise redistribute any design, text, graphics, or documentation obtained from Scribehost; or allow access to the account centre or your support forum account to non-members.

Scribehost member accounts may not be used in connection with activities that abuse others, including but not limited to:

  • posting or hosting slanderous or libelous material3
  • sending unsolicited bulk email (spamming)
  • using your account in connection with pyramid or multi-level advertising or marketing
  • posting harassing comments to forums, mailing lists, or sites (trolling)
  • attempting to undermine or cause harm to Scribehost facilities (denial of service attacks, hacks, etc. whether generalised or targeted)
  • using scripts that consume excessive CPU time
  • free-for-all (FFA) or unmoderated link lists
  • any other material or activity not specified, but which Scribehost determines to be harmful to its network and / or its clients (such material to be addressed on a case by case basis)

Prohibited Scripts

The following scripts are prohibited on Scribehost servers for security reasons:

  • server-side IRC scripts or software which is used to create, maintain, or access IRC servers or channels
  • CGI or php-based shell scripts
  • web proxy scripts (example: nph-proxy)
  • unsecured form to mail scripts (example: Matt Wright's FormMail, or any naming variant of same)
  • Greymatter blogging script
  • Movable Type's Plugin Manager (mt-pm)
    please note: Movable Type itself is still allowed. Only this particular plugin is banned.

Such scripts or software will, when found, be deleted without notice. If the software is reinstalled, the account in question may be suspended or terminated.

Member Accountability

Scribehost cannot and will not monitor, edit, modify, censor, or otherwise interfere with or take responsibility for member content or communications, including web pages, scripts, and email. It is therefore the member's responsibility to ensure that their account content and conduct follows the guidelines set forth in this Acceptable Use Policy and in the Terms and Conditions.


'Pornographic material' refers to graphical depictions of sex or sexual situations intended solely to arouse sexual desire.
For material not to infringe on copyrights, the copyright holder must be clearly credited, no monies or other financial or material benefit may be made from the use of the materials, and use of such materials must not dilute the brand.
'Slanderous or libelous material' is anything which knowingly makes or implies untrue and damaging statements or claims about a person or entity.