Hello Gordon, As you have an inside track and I don't (anymore), I will refrain from disputing anything that has to do with day to day going ons in Sealand.
However, your explanations and suggestions do not address the two root problems of it all. - Sealand claims souvereignity but has no commercial code that would establish rules of conduct, taxation, contract law, etc. - Sealand's ruler is an absolute monarch without checks and balances. Don't get me wrong, I subscribe and believe in forms of government that are either earned or inherited and especially learnt. However, conducting business in a location in which there is no rules and in which the 'citizenry' is at the complete mercy of the government, is IMHO not worth the higher fees that have to be passed on to customers. The problem does not stop there. The very absence of rules puts you at the mercy of authorities elsewhere if your clients mess up. With the absence of rules comes the loss of protection. The protection hosting service providers enjoy through decissions and precedents in case law that held that hosting businesses can not be held responsible or indeed liable for what their respective customers do with the storage space they rent. Now, that said, if indeed your assumption is correct and there is some sort of conspiracy against Sealand in the works, then I'd say, which ever way you look at it, you would loose. If the conspirators succeed to mess up Sealand and/or HavenCo, then you will risk loosing clients. If the conspirators fail, then they will first go after the service providers, next after the ventures based on or using Sealand and finally make things difficult for everyone remotely related to Sealand - such as your customers hosting there. If you give it some thought, you are likely to agree that if some conspirators try technical gimmickery and then a smear campaign in the press, then nothing is really beneath them (sounds government inspired and/or sponsored, if you ask me). Now, while sticking to Sealand might earn you a medal for bravery (now, there is an idea), it is not necessarily a wise business choice. Cheers, Robert. <no sig for this one> --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
