20 Dec 2004

WIBBI… government didn’t just flat-out lie to us

In the debate about the Cabinet Office instructing civil servants to delete any email over 3 months old in advance of the Freedom of Information Act coming into force, the reason reported (The Times, Saturday) is for ‘good records management practice’ to stop files blocking the system, going on to say ‘It is the end of the year and our computer system is getting overloaded.’

What complete and utter nonsense! Anyone would think we were still using punched cards or paper tape.

If the state of the Government’s internal IT is such that they are unable to retain all email indefinitely in a searchable system, then their IT suppliers must be even more useless than those of us in the profession have come to believe.

To be flippant, all they would need to do is forward their email archive to the Echelon system. Or get a few GMail accounts - I have some spare invites, if they’re interested

Posted by Simon Banton on 20/12/04 at 8:19am
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