Slightly OT: hmce.gov.uk

Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running at
a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it just
seems to forget what it's doing.

Anyone else noticed this? (before I check with my ISP to see if it's just
me).

Anth

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:11:47 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running at
>a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it just
>seems to forget what it's doing.
>
>Anyone else noticed this? (before I check with my ISP to see if it's just
>me).

It does seem slow compared to many other sites. I am sure EDS will be
along shortly to upgrade it :-)

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Hiram Hackenbacker

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:17:24 GMT, Hiram Hackenbacker wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:11:47 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running at
>>a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it just
>>seems to forget what it's doing.
>>
>>Anyone else noticed this? (before I check with my ISP to see if it's just
>>me).
>
> It does seem slow compared to many other sites. I am sure EDS will be
> along shortly to upgrade it :-)

Probably at some huge cost to the taxpayer, as usual. <G>

Regards

Bill

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:11:47 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running at
>a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it just
>seems to forget what it's doing.
>
>Anyone else noticed this? (before I check with my ISP to see if it's just
>me).

Yes, it is slow.

Have you told them?
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> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:11:47 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running
>>at
>>a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it
>>just
>>seems to forget what it's doing.
>>
>>Anyone else noticed this? (before I check with my ISP to see if it's just
>>me).
>
> Yes, it is slow.
>
> Have you told them?
> --
> King Queen - Remove .lartsspammers to reply. http://www.kingqueen.org.uk
> "Advertising is the rattling of a stick in a swill bucket" George Orwell

Yes although I have no idea yet if they got it (and of course I doubt
they'll reply).

What a major pain!

Anth

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:08:48 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Yes although I have no idea yet if they got it (and of course I doubt
>they'll reply).
>
>What a major pain!

Suggestion: try and find the page that has the information you request
using Google. You could do a search on "keywords site:hmce.gov.uk" and
it will only respond with the pages matching the keywords from the
HMCE website. You can then click on "Cached" for the relevant page to
see Google's copy of it - should be a lot faster.


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> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:08:48 +0100, "anth" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Yes although I have no idea yet if they got it (and of course I doubt
>>they'll reply).
>>
>>What a major pain!
>
> Suggestion: try and find the page that has the information you request
> using Google. You could do a search on "keywords site:hmce.gov.uk" and
> it will only respond with the pages matching the keywords from the
> HMCE website. You can then click on "Cached" for the relevant page to
> see Google's copy of it - should be a lot faster.
>
>
> --
> King Queen - Remove .lartsspammers to reply. http://www.kingqueen.org.uk
> "Advertising is the rattling of a stick in a swill bucket" George Orwell

Excellent!

I didn't bother with a cached copy of what I needed as they seem to be
running the old website (possibly in tandem) from a ww2.hmce.gov.uk site
(which popped up as a result) and runs just like it used to.

Cheers

Anth

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Hiram Hackenbacker <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>Customs & Excise have recently revamped their site and it's been running at
>>a snails pace since then. I can't even get into the section I need, it just
>>seems to forget what it's doing.
[...]
>It does seem slow compared to many other sites. I am sure EDS will be
>along shortly to upgrade it :-)

.... if they're not too busy getting sued by Sky for screwing up their CRM
system (business pages in today's newspapers).

Zane.