ToffeeWeb - Season 2008-09

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The leaving of?

A few days notice was all we got and without so much of a by your leave Toffeeweb up stakes and shoot off to another platform.

No canvassing of the supporter base, no vote, no nothing. Here today, gone tomorrow... and we can either like it or lump it.

Has bitterness resulting from another Everton related vote put the kybosh anything democratic ever happening again? Nonetheless it behoves me, on behalf of TW's regulars to ask these pertinent few questions.

Is this new platform inside or outside the city?
If it is outside the city boundary how far outside is it?
Will it attract more or less visitors?
Can it handle any hoped for increase in internet traffic?
Will mailbag views be restricted? ie: Tony in full flow?
Is it a state-of-the-art platform or merely the best we can afford?
Was consideration given to alternative sites?
Was it not a feasible to rebuild the current platform?
What about our ?istry??

We can only trust that Michael and Lyndon really know what they are doing. By the way, is it too late for a KTWIOC campaign?
Dick Fearon, West Australia Posted 28/11/2008 at 06:03:46

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Michael Kenrick

Yes, shocking as it is, we must admit the platform is no longer in the City.

We're not quite sure where this virtual entity exists within the WorldWide Web. It could be in a server farm in Outer Mongolia for all we know...

Probably less traffic... the fayre on offer ain't so good these days!!!

Capacity is theoretically limitless.

Restricted views will continue to be tolerated.

It is a state-of-the-art platform, the best we could afford.

I believe Lyndon gave a lot of consideration to alternative sites but he deemed them all to be infeasible without consulting me. Personally, I think he must have negotiated a really sweet backhander/payoff deal with the new host but he's not cutting me in, so I'm going on work-to-rule until he gets me a new contract that keeps me front and center for the next five years... even if he sells the site to some new web billionaire.

Rebuilding was not an option: we were merely renting the (cyber-)space but weren't getting the services and responses needed form our old host.

Our 'istory should be fully intact in that all the pages we had before should be there... just one small hitch: I can't edit them at the moment!

We are now hoping that normal; service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience!

Tom Campbell
1 Posted 28/11/2008 at 21:13:17

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Are you selling the naming rights???

Rich Jones
2 Posted 29/11/2008 at 08:55:10

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Will you allow Knowsley Council to hold meetings with live chat and forums, free of charge at this new "deliverable" hosting platform?

Michael Coffey
3 Posted 29/11/2008 at 09:01:40

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