Official Abuse Clauses.
excerpts from the terms of service and acceptable use policy
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Acceptable Uses Policy and terms of service.
for all yourfavorite.com customers and customers 
of affiliated sites.

 UNACCEPTABLE USES: The following are unacceptable uses of services including, but not limited to software and web hosting:

Illegality in any form, including but not limited to activities such as unauthorized distribution or copying of copyrighted software, violation of U.S. export restrictions, harassment, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, money laundering, factoring, scrubbing, and other illegal activities are prohibited.

Net abuse, including but not limited to activities such as using a non-existent email return address on a commercial solicitation, use of email addresses gathered from an FFA site, spamming (sending unsolicited advertising to numerous email addresses or newsgroups and/or generating a significantly higher volume of outgoing email than a normal user), allowing spamming by third parties to promote a web site hosted by us, trolling (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses), mailbombing (sending multiple messages without significant new content to the same user), subscribing someone else to a mailing list without that person's permission, cross-posting articles to an excessive number of newsgroups, transmitting a virus over the Internet to one or more users or systems, or attempting without authorization to enter into a secured computer system. We reserve the right to determine what constitutes net abuse. Customers will take full financial responsibility for any incident of net abuse. .  By using yourfavorite.com services, email communication is considered authorized, regardless of format and while use of the removal system is permitted, reporting such communication as "Spam," or "UCE," will be considered "net abuse" under this agreement.

Tortuous conduct, including but not limited to posting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, or violating trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights.  Making threats, or threatening remarks toward employees, or representatives of yourfavorite.com

Misuse of system resources, including but not limited to employing posts or programs which consume excessive CPU time or storage space; permitting use of mail services, mail forwarding capabilities, excessive use or abuse of support services, POP accounts, or autoresponders other than for the customer's own account; resale of access to CGI or API scripts installed on our servers; or attempting to use a single customer account for third party web sites by allowing more than one domain pointer to be used to reference pages within the customer's site.

Hijack of resources and/or systems, including but not limited to using resources such as SMTP or MAIL servers and NET addresses without prior authorization. Linking or hacking the databases supplied by yourfavorite.com and within software designed and licensed by yourfavorite.com in an inappropriate manner. By using system resources without having an established account with yourfavorite.com, or an affiliate, you will automatically become responsible for payment of $120 per hour for any necessary administrator time that may result from your actions, plus actual damages. You will also be responsible for all incidental expenses that may result from your actions.  This includes, but is not limited to time for virus removal, system hardware or software repair, phone time, and letter writing. You will also be responsible for all costs for collection should collections activity be required.  Use of system resources with, or without placing an order, and with or without receiving official permission, will initiate your unconditional agreement to the terms of service.

Unauthorized Use of services or websites.  Use of public web pages linked from the yourfavorite.com home page or other top level domain names managed by yourfavorite.com is permitted, as is accessing sites or web pages that are indexed in public search engines, however, it is prohibited to use web pages that are not intended for public use such as private pages, mock up pages, client pages, pages listed in the archives or history sections of yourfavorite.com, expired web pages with copyright dates older than 1 year, or password protected sections of any website, without the proper credentials.  Accessing such pages without invitation, or rightfully issued credentials will be considered hacking under these terms. 
FEES

Yourfavorite.com may also institute fees on a customer, or user's account in the following circumstances:

ABUSE - When the customer has violated the yourfavorite.com abuse policy or terms of this contract, yourfavorite.com reserves the right to bill the customer's default payment method, or any valid payment method on file for the following fee schedule.  $50 for the first incident, plus actual cost of any damages; $100 for the second incident, plus actual cost of damages; $1000 for third offense, plus actual cost of damages.

Policy on Spamming Specifically:

We do not allow our users to send Spam.  Please report any Spam to registrars @ yourfavorite.com.  We would appreciate if you would forward a copy of the entire message, including all headers, as an attachment, so we can identify the sender, and terminate their account.  We can only fully authenticate messages if we receive a copy of the entire message, including all headers.

We will attempt to collect damages and enforce these terms of service against any proven violator.