as someone who has daily contact with our affiliates I can say I hate to do this, but sometimes it is absolutely unavoidable. I will give you a recent example and another close call.

recent example was one of our affiliates was sending out Spam, we clearly do not allow that (I even received this spam in my inbox!)... we were contacted by our registrar who was going to kill our domains unless we sent them 'proof' that we killed this affiliates account.

We clearly state which ways cannot be used to promote our sites and that the funds will be forfeit if those rules are not followed. It sucks but if you think any method you use might be considered illegal or unethical check with the sponsors TOS and find out for sure, or shoot off an e mail prior to starting the campaign and check to make sure it is ok. Their affiliate manager should have no problem letting you know in a timely manner if it is acceptable or not... and if they don't then maybe they aren't the program you should be wanting to promote in the first place

2cents

spaz