On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:59:56 UTC+1, wrote:


Oh yes it was extensively tested (or so it is claimed). The developers are
not meteorologists, that is the main problem. Nothing to do with the
programmers who are very very good, but it is a lot to do with the senior
governance and leadership of the Met Office.

If it is anything like what some US govenrment agencies do, it is all crapware from Adobe that is causing the problems. What do error pages look like?

I only go there for the North Atlantic charts. I recently ticked all the boxes for newsletters form their site. I couldn't be arsed going back to unsubscribe. I just hit the spam button and Gmail learned they are not worth opening.

Since they stopped archiving the tropical storms I lost interest in them. Besides, I have US websites read to do the job when they finally JavaScript (or whatever they use) themselves out of the mainstream.

I'm bombarding them with e-mails at present pointing out the multiple issues


Everyone has to be answered.

Yes but with the same standard form it is no problem for some east European or Asian temp worker to get shivved with your correspondence. If it is an Adobe web package you were lucky to be able to grab the complaints department's capcha.