Re: general "best practices" question re: orphaned servers

Len Sassaman wrote:

> I know many of you are colo providers whose customers resell the rackspace
> they purchase from you. I suppose this is kind of a survey question -- I'm
> trying to get an idea of what the generally accepted practice is in the
> situation where resellers of rackspace go out of business and you are left
> with their customers' hardware.

I am not a provider, not am I a lawyer.

But if I were the former, I would have contract words written by the 
latter in my contracts, which words would instruct in some detail how 
abandoned property will be dealt-with.  I would expect that commercial 
and other law would be involved.

After the question comes up is way too late to think about the answer.

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