[lug] Colocation recommendations: strike American ISP

[B Giles]

Something finally go through - possibly the very harsh tone and deadline - 
but I finally got a response from the owner.

"Have pity on me, I have 8800 customers and they're all calling and writing! 
  My staff is working 100 hour weeks!"

I pointed out that he doesn't have 8800 colocated customers,  that the 
colocated customers are all businesses with their own customers who have 
been cut off without warning, and that I'm working 100 hour weeks as well 
but I'm duplicating the effort of last week instead of finishing up some 
bids, etc.

I won't even get into his comment about how he trusted my colocated server 
was alive and well.  If they can't even run ping against their own netblock 
to identify which machines didn't recover... I mean, that pretty much says 
it all!

Bear

P.S., I'm the type of person who logs the serial numbers of his hard disks, 
retains the barcodes from the drive packaging, etc.

>From: "George Sexton" <gsexton at mhsoftware.com>
>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, 4 Aug 2003 21:58:08 -0600
>
>Nothing speeds people up like the threat of a lawsuit. I hate to say it
>because it sounds like I am encouraging law suits, but the fact is that
>until you make it serious to them, they won't do anything.
>
>Police are actually a good idea. Call and tell them that they are
>holding your property and refuse to return it. Make sure you meet them
>their with copies of something that actually proves you own the gear.

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