[lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP

[B Giles]

I sympathize with the dialup users - an overzealous weedwacker proved a few 
weeks ago that idiots don't just drive backhoes.

But there's are several key difference between dialup and colocated 
customers.

Without connectivity, dialup customers can't do anything.  They can take 
their business elsewhere, and there's nothing American ISP can do to prevent 
it.

But colocated customers can still do a lot of things with their hardware 
even when they don't have connectivity - they can check for damage, perform 
maintenance, etc.
They can take their machines elsewhere, on either an emergency or permanent 
basis.  They could even decide to sell their equipment to somebody else.

Hell, they could honor prior commitments to sell their equipment to somebody 
else.

We can't do that now.

>From: bof <bof at pcisys.net>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP
>Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:51:30 -0600
>
>B Giles wrote:
>
>><snip>
>>
>>I guess they are too busy helping the dialup users running Windows 95 to 
>>bother with people who actually entrusted computers to them,
>
>
>Friends of mine were calling me as of last Thursday saying that their 
>dial-up accounts could still not access the Internet and asking for 
>recommendations for new ISP's.
>
>So I don't think it is just business users that got short-changed.
>
>
>BOF
>
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