[lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP

[George Sexton]

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.
This is a no brainer. Get your box, and go down the street to someone
else.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of B Giles
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:58 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP


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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