In message , at 15:57:26 on Mon, 21 Dec
2015, Robin remarked:

There is plenty of other stuff that is routinely published in order to
take the burden off the FOI process.

Which still has a cost of course. Eg someone asked last year for audio
files of the announcements Underground trains, Overground trains, DLR
and at stations under FoI. They got a CD of those on the Overgound but
not of others due to contractual conditions. Should TfL publish these
routinely? And those for buses? And in future negotiate contracts so
they can publish more? I can see that they might well be of interest to
some (relatively few?) people. But I do wonder if either that or
sending out CDs in response to specific FoI requests is really what FoI
campaigners gave their lives for And if farepayers and London
council tax payers would think it good use of their money.

The point is that publishing the contents of the CD on the website is
hardly any more work than burning and shipping the first CD, and the
answer to the FOI request (and the inhibiting factor for future
identical FOI requests) is "look he it's on our website".
--
Roland Perry