Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Climategate team 'spring cleans' emails not specified in FOIA requests, advises against use of email

date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:49:18 -0000 (GMT)
from: "Tim Osborn"
subject: RE: FW: FOI_08-50 ; EIR_08-01
to: "Jones Philip Prof"
Hi Phil!

re. your email to Dave Palmer [which he copied in his response to you and
cc'd to me, Keith & Michael McGarvie, and which has hence already been
multiply copied within the UEA system, and therefore will probably exist
for a number of months and possibly years, and could be released under FOI
if a request is made for it during that time!]... I assume that you didn't
delete any emails that David Holland has requested (because that would be
illegal) but that instead his request merely prompted you to do a spring
clean of various other emails that hadn't been requested, as part of your
regular routine of deleting old emails.  If that is what you meant, then
it might be a good idea to clarify your previous email to Dave Palmer, to
avoid it being misunderstood. :-)

The way things seem to be going, I think it best if we discuss all FOI,
EIR, Data Protection requests in person wherever possible, rather than via
email.  It's such a shame that the skeptics' vexatious use of this
legislation may prevent us from using such an efficient modern technology
as email, but it seems that if we want to have confidential discussions
then we may need to avoid it.


I shall delete this email and those related to it as part of my regular
routine of deleting old emails!

Cheers

Tim

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