</lurk> Hi,
I expect this will be somewhat controversial, however: Why not play the game? Given that certain sections of the media will undoubtedly spout the "FOI is a waste of money" line, why not take some steps to address that? Why not do something that enables you to say, "Yes, we're aware that some people make frivolous requests. But, we've done something about that, and now consider it a non-problem". And, put that line out pro-actively rather than re-actively. Throw water on the fire before it even gets going. My suggestion would be, some sort of filtering, peer-review and "cooling off period". stuff like, eg: For first-time users of WDTK, force their request to go to peer-review first. Other users of the site would advise if it was a well written request, or maybe if it had already been sent - or perhaps even if the information was easily available through other means. Once a user had been through a number of requests, their status would be elevated, and they wouldn't require the review. Whether you'd actually block requests that didn't pass the "peer test", would be a debate for WDTK. Force a "cooling-off-period" for internal review requests. Make the user wait 24hours (or whatever) before they could do that - allowing time for reflection and peer review. Simon <lurk> _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
