Protection of Network Performance

Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet reserves sole discretion to determine whether any customer's use of the service interferes with other customer's use and enjoyment of the services. 

• The sending of excessive amounts of email or excessively large files which, in Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet Service's sole opinion, negatively affects the performance of the network or any server on the network may result in deletion of the offending message or file, and may result in the termination of services. 

• You may not provide network services from your dial up account (for example, you may not use your dial up account to operate as a server of any type). 

• Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet accounts operate on shared resources. You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the performance of Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet systems or networks. Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities. 

• Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet reserves the right to delete messages or files which have remained on its servers for excessive periods of time as determined by Sodak.com/BlackHills.com Internet, in its sole discretion. Each Customer account will be provided 2 megabytes of storage for email. If your account exceeds the 2 megabytes of space, all messages over 90 days old will be deleted. 

• You may not employ automated electronic or mechanical processes designed to defeat network inactivity time-outs. Such tools include, but are not limited to, use of an auto-dialer and repetitive pinging the host.