Re: general "best practices" question re: orphaned servers
JC Dill <[email protected]>
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Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > What other people do is indeed interesting, but what you need to know is > what will your lawyers defend. I think the question might be a lot more interesting if you turned it upside down - what if you are a customer with one of these small hosting outfits, and your colo host goes belly up? What do you expect the colo facility to do with their customer's customer's equipment - your equipment? You have no legal agreement with that company, but they are in possession of items that belong to you. From a legal standpoint, there are laws about how to handle abandoned property - both when you don't know who owns it and when you have some idea who it belongs to. If you don't follow the letter of the law you could be in hot water. I know that abandoned horses can't just be "taken" by a boarding stable owner to pay "back board" - they have to file legal papers claiming the animal has been abandoned, and then publicize and hold a public auction (the exact procedure varies from state to state). The proceeds of the auction go towards paying the horse owner's back board. BUT, if the person who was paying the board was not the "owner" of the horse, the stable has no right to claim, keep, auction, etc. someone else's horse. Things can get very messy at that point. jc -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list