Herbert Graf <PICLIST@MITVMA.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 - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
=== Fast Forward Engineering - Vista, California
=== http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499