[lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP

[B Giles]

>Sounds to me like you ought to get a lawyer, and threaten them with a
>court order if they don't allow you to take your hardware out of there.

There's absolutely no doubt that they have no right to retain my property.   
If I don't get it back, I'm not going to a lawyer, I'm going to the 
police... and a lot sooner than they expect.

But this overlooks a key thing: the issue is often the timeliness of the 
possession, not just its inevitiability.  I'm working on several proposals 
at the moment, one with a friend.  At this point there's no doubt that the 
quality of our bid will be substantially degraded because I was denied 
access to this system, and the Dept. of the Army isn't going to extend the 
deadline for us alone just because some ISP refused to return calls.

We may get the contract anyway, or we might have never gotten it.  But that 
civil case can't get started until we lose the contract - it would be a 
wonderful moot point if we land the contract despite everything that's 
happened.

Bear

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