The LA Free-Net uses its computers and Internet bandwidth resources at or near capacity-levels. Also, the LA Free-Net restricts computing, storage, and Internet bandwidth-intensive services that it offers. For example, the LA Free-Net doesn't offer full Usenet newsgroups, etc. One of the LA Free-Net's limited resources is its single 1.5 megabit-per-second T1 connection to the Internet. Because the LA Free-Net operates with limited equipment and bandwidth per user, users with limited income are able to enjoy the use of the Internet, email, and the World Wide Web. In addition, the LA Free-Net gives free classroom accounts to schools and inexpensive Web hosting to non-profit organizations.

Like all other computing systems worldwide, the LA Free-Net is subject to flooding by unsolicited spam that may temporarily disrupt the LA Free-Net's Internet connection resulting in unanticipated "Denial of Service," which prevents users from browsing the WWW. "Denial of Service" may also temporarily interrupt the normal flow of outgoing and incoming email and USENET news.

The LA Free-Net blocks email from Internet Service Providers that are registered in the national lists of spam sites or that present a spam problem to the LA Free-Net. When a user of a blocked ISP sends email to an LAFN user, a response is sent back to the sender with specific instructions on contacting the sender's ISP to resolve the problem.