Guidelines for proper business usage are best expressed with a library analogy.
The library is open to the public and people from businesses are more than welcome to come and borrow any of the loan materials. Business folks are even able to come and sit on the front step and discuss how to manufacture a better gadget to take over the world gadget market. If they perform a service, the library might let them use their meeting room to give a lecture to members of the community, so long as the meeting is open to the public. However, a business may not put up a stand and openly sell things from the library, or yell out a sales pitch for everyone to hear.
These rules for a public library fit Free-Net well. We don't care if someone logs on to the Free-Net for a business and gets information to help the company. We don't care if business folks use the Free-Net to carry on private communications. However, using the Free-Net to advertise, take orders, or bill customers is considered unacceptable use and is prohibited.
The only acceptable business use of AFN is with a Business Sponsor account, which allows for very limited advertising via a web page, for the express purpose of allowing local businesses establish their initial presence on the web.
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