I do love a nice runner! I agree with Maurice. Lord Justice Auld carries a tad more weight than the fence sitting IC, or whatever you may wish to call the office. The Information Commissioner is stuck by Durant, he is hardly likely to provide guidance until it is resolved and I am sure we can all see why. Most e-mails I come into contact with are business related and I treat them as such - I will use them. I shall use e-mails in a risk assessed manner - until Durant or whatever clarifies. However I will also have regard to Privacy Statments,processing notices and the wishes of e-mail users. We can all throw our dummy out on this one, but will it stop us using distribution lists? I think not. Common sense(i am sure I have heard that somewhere before?) is what we should use. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^