This evening I filed the following 10 separate FOIAs as one email with UIUC-FOIA:
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I file FOIA to obtain the following SEPARATE FOIAs:
1. All emails sent by Professor Nick Burbules on July 21, 22 and 23, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Dr. Burbules.
2. All emails sent by Professor Nick Burbules on July 24, 25 and 26, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Dr. Burbules.
3. All emails sent by Professor Nick Burbules on July 27, 28 and 29, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Dr. Burbules.
4. All emails sent by Professor Nick Burbules on July 30, 31 and August 1, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Dr. Burbules.
5. All emails sent by Professor Nick Burbules on August 2, 3 and 4, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Dr. Burbules.
6. All emails sent by Travis Smith on July 21, 22 and 23, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Mr. Smith.
7. All emails sent by Travis Smith on July 24, 25 and 26, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Mr. Smith.
8. All emails sent by Travis Smith on July 27, 28 and 29, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Mr. Smith.
9. All emails sent by Travis Smith on July 30, 31 and August 1, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Mr. Smith.
10. All emails sent by Travis Smith on August 2, 3 and 4, with these emails retrieved by Swanlund System Services rather than by Mr. Smith.
Again, please treat each of these 10 requests as separate FOIA filings, please apply the media exemption and do not apply the “recurrent requester” appellation.
Andrew Scheinman
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Understand that I file these as separate FOIAs (albeit in a single email) because if they were a single FOIA, UIUC might find the lump of them all to be “unduly burdensome,” and given that they already delay responding to me by 3 months (I“m a “recurrent requester,” that being the modern appellation for “persistent”), I don’t need any additional delays.
In any case, if YOU would like to help, I’d love it if people out there in internetland filed various subsets of the above — if you want you can leave out the “Swanlund System Services” part so as to disavow having gotten the idea from me. Or you can leave it in. Do take out the media exemption and recurrent requester parts …
File 2 or 3 questions — [email protected] is the address. Have your friends do the same but with others of the above, Mix it up and file on the same template as above but for some combo of: Ilesanmi Adesida, Menah Pratt-Clark, Joyce Tolliver, Robin Kaler, Robert Easter, Kennedy, etc … Oh, and of course Phyllis Wise during the period of July 25 through August 1 (again, probably should break this up into smaller chunks).
Please do keep in mind that UIUC-FOIA doesn’t actually do any searching, instead they make the people you’re seeking the documents on go and retrieve them themselves (unless they get Swanlund to do it), so be aware that you actually are costing someone(s) some real amount of their time, and so don’t do this just for the heck of it. Do it because you want to be a good citizen.
You can file anonymously by the way, create an email account with the name you want — boring pseudo real name like “John Smith” or something more fun like “Tarquinfimtimlimbimbustopftangftangolebiscuitbarrel” (I quote that from memory, I think it’s spelled right). Just sign it Mr/Ms. Smith, or whatever, since they need to have a “signature.”
Then send me the results if you want, I’ll be happy to put them up. Or send them to some other entity of your choice, perhaps they’ll send them on to me.
Remember, this is a right, but it’s a right that needs to be used responsibly and with great civility.
Now get cracking!