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[Ophir Prusak]

First of all, pay the $20 so you'll have the data in hand.
THEN you can go ahead and do something else (like talk to a boss,
threaten them, etc). Maybe you could even get your money back or
something

If the files have any real value to you, the last thing you need is to
try to play hardball only to have your files "accidentally" deleted or
something like that.


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:15:18 -0500, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> i had a web host that was a reseller, they went under and thier
> servers taken back by the company who sold them the space, there was
> no warning for this happening at all.  now the new company wants to
> charge me $20 to get my files back....  is this even legal to do? all
> files on my account were written by me therefore they are my property.
> I mean this sounds to me the equivilence to walking into thier
> datacenter taking one of thier servers then saying hah you want it you
> have to pay me to get it back.
> 
> what steps should i take in this situation?  I have contacted support
> and they continue to say they are going to charge me now way around
> it, because thier tech has to run a tar command and email me the
> files, which on a properly setup linux box could probably all be done
> on one line.
> 
> --
> Joseph Crawford Jr.
> Codebowl Solutions
> codebowl at gmail.com
> 
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