Adequacy.org gives permission for its servers to be accessed by HTTP clients specifically designed to represent the logical structure of the served documents in a user readable format, or by mail transport agents legitimately transporting email relevant to the site. Protocol handshake information generated by our servers in a network transaction with your computer and client program, including but not limited to HTTP headers or SMTP handshakes, are Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Adequacy.org; disclosure of the contents of such protocol exchanges is strictly forbidden.

The HTML source to our web pages is also Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Adequacy.org, and is only licensed to you for the purposes of reading and responding to Adequacy.org content, not for direct examination of said HTML source. Disclosure of the HTML source of any Adequacy.org page beyond the perusal of article and comment content is strictly forbidden.

Any means of accessing Adequacy.org which violates these permissions, including but not limited to telnet access to any port, port scans, operating system detection programs, or any client or client feature specifically designed to display HTTP header information in a normal network transaction with our servers, or to display or store the physical structure of the HTML documents served (as opposed to generating a user-visible display out of the logical structure), are access control circumvention devices and thus not allowed under the provisions of the DMCA. Use of such devices on our site shall constitute unauthorized access (a.k.a. "hacking"). An example of such client devices is the wget program, which by design displays protocol information and does not render the HTML document for user consumption; another one is the "Display Source" feature of Web browsers.

Also, we reserve the right to remove comments deemed inappropriate in tone, factually false, or in violation of the law. We recognize this is an extreme measure, and will thus apply it sparingly.

We will enthusiastically give out your IP address to the FBI. We live in dangerous times, and Americans have to watch out what they say.