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OFT Reply On Email Deletion Questions
Tuesday, 16th June, 2009 at 1:46 pm, Isle of Wight
An update on our story on Friday of the OFT deleting some emails that emerged after the publication of their provisional findings into the market report on Isle of Wight ferries.
We checked with the Office of Fair Trading that the emails that were sent by the people on the Island had been seen by the officials before they deleted and they replied, “I can confirm that these emails were looked at before they were deleted. The reason we are offering people to email them in again is so we have copies for our records.”
On VB’s question on how the emails came to be deleted in these days of corporate email system, data security and backups. They replied, “On the wider point about how they got lost, as I said there was a technical glitch but information/email security is not something we would get into discussions about so I am not able to provide you with further details on this.”
More ferry comments please
Please ensure that if you emailed the OFT between 25 Feb and 10 March, you send them another copy – or indeed if you have additional relevant comments on the investigation, which is continuing, email them to isleofwightferries@oft.gov.uk.
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Ah, the old technical glitch syndrome eh. well, that explains it then. All those boffins who have developed RAID server side processes to ensure that exactly this cannot happen (now ubiquitous on all mail systems) and ensure that even the most incompetent idiot cannot completely erase data have been thwarted by the ‘technical glitch’.
Telling us what kind of mirror and data dump systems they have will hardly undermine security – unless they haven’t got any!
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Wouldn’t it be great if everybody now e-mailed the OFT to tell them what a bunch of money grubbing sharks the ferry operators are, and how unreasonably expensive it is to get on and off the island?
1. Because it would make them wish they’d never deleted the e-mails in the first place.
2. Because it could very well be true.
3. Because it would be a small (but significant) step towards victory over the apathetic ‘Weltschmerz’ that allows ‘the man’ to go on having it his own way.
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