This issue was discussed on the FOI list a while back, and similar
conclusions were drawn. You can read the discussion by going to this URL:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=freedom-of-information
...do a search for "Hogmanay" (the title of the discussion was "Hogmanay
early: FoI")
There are about 9 posts on the issue.
Catherine Redfern
Archive Inspection Officer
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel: 020 8392 5330 x.2354
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/services
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Bradshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 July 2004 11:34
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FoI Requests for information and e-mail discussion lists
>
>
> Just a small additional point. We should treat these issues
> in a common
> sense fashion - business as usual unless there is good reason
> to invoke
> FOIA.
> I will certainly not be regarding requests in mailing lists /
> discussion
> groups, letters in the press, flyposters, questionnaires sent
> to me by my
> benchmarking partners etc. as FOIA requests.
> The bottom line is not to worry about the FOIA if you do not
> need to. For
> these things it should be business as usual. In the
> discussion list and
> similar scenarios if the requester DOES want to play games
> and use the FOI
> he should say so. If he does not we are at the end of the day
> protected by
> our complaints procedure. The requester still has to use the
> complaints /
> appeal procedure before he goes to the IC and at that stage
> we will know
> it is now FOIA and can act accordingly.
> If someone simply posts a question and runs to the IC after
> twenty working
> days I would hope and expect him to get very short shrift, not
> withstanding the recently given opinion.
>
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