If you agree with the first point, you have to agree with the second. It is cause and effect.
Without news of the 1999 tour on this site, a large percentage of people would not have known about it. If a large percentage of people had not attended the concerts, the 1999 tour would have been a financial failure. If the 1999 tour was a financial failure, there wouldn't have been a 2002 tour. Without a 2002 tour, there would have been no new songs to debut to the fans, no Sanctuary record contract, and no 'You Are The Quarry'. That is a fact.
Viva Hate, you make some very intelligent posts and points, BUT.... (and I don't want to get into a pissing contest about this) YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG about the 1999 and 2002 tours. I'll concede this website DID help, but Morrissey has ALWAYS, and I mean, ALWAYS, had a strong enough and loyal fan base to tour without ANY promotion at all, even during the wilderness years. So, your timeline is way off. The Oye Esteban tour was successful mostly due to the California (and hispanic) following and the fact that he has ALWAYS maintained an appeal around the world. 2002, same thing. Of course the website helped... But Quarry swould've came out in 04' with or without the two previous tours. The new songs were written LONG before 2002. Sanctuary would've given Moz a deal, regardless of those tours. And Morrissey would probably still be with Sanctuary today, if they handled their financial matters better.
In any case, the previous tours were not the deciding factor. His back catalogue and his loyal fan base played HUGE factors, but the tours and again, the website, didn't hurt either. The loyal fan base, which I'm guessing was before your time (?) did not have access to the Internet. A good example of this is "Live In Dallas" HAPPENED (keep in mind this was 3 years [more than your two year limit] after "Viva Hate"...AND with the idea that the "Kill Uncle" songs were a flop with critics - there was NO earthly reason for people to attend this tour, but they did, in droves, without this website), and with NO Internet. The video 'Live In Dallas' provided and still does provide more promotion for Morrissey's future shows than this website really, ever could. If this website closed down today, True To You would get more hits and people who wanted to go to the shows would simply check there and that's that. With this website gone, the thing people would be missing out on is the forums, which, I think at this point, are fairly worthless. The forums are mostly a pissing contest, power-trips, immature teenage capping rituals peppered with a few rare nuggets of information or bootlegs and that's it. Basically, useless. Always have been, really. Everyone is trying to "make their own name", that is, make their "online name/presence", which is really boring when you think about 10 people might care what you/people seeking online fame think and that's about it. Yeah, there have been some gems released here, BUT it's not anything I couldn't have obtained from somewhere else by someone else.
Finally, I'll shut up, but I do think this site has been critically useful to Morrissey, but what I'm saying is, Morrissey would've, in fact, survived without it. I appreciate David T. and his efforts and support him in anyway that I can, not for David T. himself so much, but because of MORRISSEY. Take M-O-R-R-I-S-S-E-Y out of the equation and all you have is a boring BLOG. Make sense?