Message 00347: Re: ecfr
The social security administration's 20 business days are up and they
still haven't responded to my FOIA for the death masster file.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> let me get over my ecfr fundraising first. :) in any case, you have a foia
> request in for the ssa dmf, so let's let the clock tick for 20 days. if we
> do raise money for the dmf (I'm thinking metaweb might put some cash in for
> that), having a foia in hand helps establish that we tried.
>
> sound like a plan?
>
> Carl
>
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
>> Yeah, we'll probably be required by law to buy the $6900 version so
>> that we can get the applicable updates. But if you think you can raise
>> the money, I'd love to do that.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>>>
>>>> exciting stuff. I put in a FOIA request for NCOA ($5000) and SSA DMF
>>>> ($1725) but I worry that they'll find an excuse to make me pay...
>>>
>>> usps ncoa? good luck. btw, they included a shrinkwrap license agreement
>>> in
>>> one of their mailings to me, so we should assume we're under a EULA (but,
>>> if
>>> we extract facts, we are ok).
>>>
>>> for ssa dmf, why don't we just buy it and open source it? it is fairly
>>> cheap. but, are you sure you don't need the $6,900 product? You also
>>> understand that you would be required by law to apply the weekly updates?
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
>>
>
>
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