PANESU Acceptable Use Policy (adapted from NENET)  v.1.16.98

The purpose of PANESU (Pan-A-Sioux) the Panhandle Educational Service
Unit's network, server, and gopher is to advance and promote preK-12
education in ESU-13 member schools.  Established for use by
the preK-12 education community, PANESU is intended to assist in access to
and exchange of information pertinent to education and the instructional
process.

PANESU Goal:  The goal of PANESU is to promote excellence in Nebraska
preK-12 education by providing quality, equitable, and cost-effective
information and communication resources to preK-12 educators.

PANESU Use: The intent of the PANESU acceptable use policy is to insure
that all uses of PANESU are consistent with its stated goal and purpose.
The policy does not attempt to articulate all required or expected
behavior.  User's should exercise their best judgment of appropriate
online conduct. To assist in such judgment, the following general
guidelines are offered:

1. Any use of PANESU for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal
   activities, such as transmission of commercial copyrighted software,
   is prohibited.

2. All use of PANESU must be in support of education and research
   and be consistent with the purpose and goal of this acceptable use
   policy.  Accessing pornography or other material inappropriate to the 
   K-12 environment is prohibited.

3. Any use of PANESU for commercial purposes, product advertisement or
   political lobbying is prohibited.

4. No use of PANESU shall serve to disrupt the use of the network by
   other users.

5. Anonymous use of PANESU is not allowed.  Login IDs must be a
   combination of first and last names or initials.  Do not change your
   account "User Name" unless you create a plan file fully identifying
   yourself.

6. If users become aware of security problems on PANESU they must report
   the problem immediately to sysop@panesu.org and not reveal the problem 
   to other users.

7.  Educators in ESU-13 member schools are eligible for a 
    PANESU account.  Accounts for board and advisory group members may be
    permitted, provided their use furthers the purpose and goal of PANESU,
    and their accounts are approved by the school district.

8. Student account applications require signatures of an authorized
   representative of their school district, and a parent or guardian.

9. PANESU accounts should be used only by the authorized account owner
   for the authorized purpose.  An educator my permit occasional and
   guided student use of their account provided proper supervision is
   maintained by the educator, and, further, the educator assumes full
   responsibility for use of the account by the student.

10. PANESU user's traffic that traverses another network is subject to
    that network's acceptable use policy.

12.  From time to time, reviews of specific users accounts may be made to
     determine whether they are consistent with this policy.  PANESU
     reserves the right to cancel any user's account.

13. Time on PANESU is not an unlimited resource.  All account holders
    are expected to efficiently use their online time.  Please limit modem
    dialup calls to 30 minutes per day.

    Activities such as downloading lengthy non-essential files or files
    obtainable in another way is discouraged.

14. PANESU will not regulate the content of electronic mail, however, in
    order to preserve the integrity or operational state of the network,
    PANESU system administrators reserve the right to inspect, without
    prior consent, any data or files that exist on the system.

    Email is considered private, but not necessarily secure.  PANESU
    tries to provide a reasonable level of security for information on the
    network, but cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of any
    information stored or transferred on it.  Email can theoretically be
    intercepted and read at any point where it is forwarded along the
    network and mail with invalid user or host names is sometimes
    delivered to the system administrator.  If there is any information
    that you absolutely do not want another person to see or access, then 
    you should not store it on PANESU.

    This policy exists to make you aware of the inherent limitations of
    existing technology on systems like the state telecomputing network to
    maintain an absolute level of privacy or confidentiality of 
    information stored on ESU servers or transferred on the Internet.

PANESU services are provided on an "as is, as available" basis. Because of
the nature of network services, PANESU does not warrant that the functions
or services performed by, or that the information or software contained on
the system will meet users requirements or that the operation of the
system will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in the system
can or will be corrected.