It’s important to remember that email sent via your corporate email account is not private.

About 500,000 email messages from the enron email servers are now publicly available because of the corporate scandal. You can get the dataset and pointers to some papers that talk about it here: www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/.

It would be fun to run this email through Microsoft’s SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, from Microsoft Research; or some other social network software.

Here are a few links that I saved from a google search:

1. Prentice Discusses Ethics & Law in the Enron Era on NPR
2. The decline and fall of the Enron empire
3. enronemail.com
4. UC Berkeley Enron Email Analysis