Sorry guys, I must stop being belligerent.
The computer failure was on equipment belonging to AIS/NATS, nothing to do with the CAA. They have a new system at NOF which feeds the notam out on to AFS for you guys. That system didn't go down but the replica server which feeds to us did, and was out for nearly a whole day. As I said this is the fourth failure since mid-August when it went live.
Yes its our duty to brief ourselves but it's NATS/AIS duty to make the information available and yes it is Catch 22 at the moment.
The availability issue is not your problem, it's an issue for us to sort out with AIS.
BTW my info is that you will lose the A8's, we've already lost them
We've strayed a bit from my original suggestion which was that perhaps we have too much stuff being notammed. I don't know whether you guys generate any of that or not.
Mike