Post by thread:Geocities Web site [OT]

At 13:31 16/10/97 +0200, you wrote: >I am about to set up a Web site at the Geocities server. As I noticed some >people are using their services, I would like to ask, if there are any >limitation on the space provided, on the content (I mean for commercial >purposes), or on the time for witch it is free, or any other drawback I may >not like. > >Probably I could find all that details at their help pages, but I do not >have access to the net with a http protocol :-( > >Thanks > >Josef IIRC they expect you to have one of their links on your pages. I've only got their link on two or three of my pages and haven't had any complaints. Keith. ------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Dowsett "Variables won't; constants aren't." E-mail: spam_OUTkdowsettTakeThisOuTrpms.ac.uk or .....kdowsettKILLspam@spam@geocities.com WWW: http://kd.rpms.ac.uk/index.htm www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8979

-----Original Message----- From: Josef Hanzal <euroclassKILLspamPHA.PVTNET.CZ> To: .....PICLISTKILLspam.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU <EraseMEPICLISTspam_OUTTakeThisOuTMITVMA.MIT.EDU> Date: Thursday, October 16, 1997 07:27 Subject: Geocities Web site [OT] >I am about to set up a Web site at the Geocities server. As I noticed some >people are using their services, I would like to ask, if there are any >limitation on the space provided, on the content (I mean for commercial >purposes), or on the time for witch it is free, or any other drawback I may >not like. Geocities is quite liberal. About the only kind of stuff you can't do is anything morally objectionable, porn, hate lit. andything like that. As for space you have a limit of 2MB, and it is free forever AFAIK. They do have a pay program that gets you some extra stuff, but I don't need it much. TTYL

Herbert Graf <PICLISTspam_OUTMITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote: > Geocities is quite liberal. About the only kind of stuff you can't > do is anything morally objectionable, porn, hate lit. andything > like that. Herbert (and Josef): Geocities' Content Guidelines prohibit the following: Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual Using your free Personal Home Pages for commercial purposes, including but not limited to the following: Offering for sale any products or services Soliciting for advertisers or sponsors Displaying a sponsorship banner of any kind, including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services, with the sole exception of the GeoCities GeoRewards program and the Link Exchange Displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web site Promoting or soliciting for participation in multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes Conducting raffles or contests that require any type of entry fee Displaying material containing nudity or pornographic material of any kind Displaying material that exploits children under 18 years of age Developing restricted or Password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to from another accessible page) Using your page (or directory) as storage for remote loading or as a door or signpost to another server Using your page for acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer programs or links to such programs, information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities Violating Internet standards for the purpose of promoting your home page Developing pages that consist of hyperlinks to content not allowed in GeoCities The "offering for sale any products or services" prohibition is enforced a little loosely... They don't object to a MENTION of your company so long as your page content is primarily non-commercial, but they don't want online catalogs, price lists, etc. -Andy === Andrew Warren - @spam@fastfwdKILLspamix.netcom.com === Fast Forward Engineering - Vista, California === http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499