Originally published February 23 2006
Enron e-mail becomes a source of valuable research for scientists
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Roger Matus, CEO of anti-spam firm Inboxer, talks about the scientific value of Enron's email, available online thanks to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
In March 2001, just a few months before Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling resigned, an employee e-mailed him a joke about a policeman pulling over a speeding driver, whose wife subsequently rats him out to the cop for other offenses, including being drunk.
Skilling and Enron chairman Ken Lay, whose federal trial on multiple felony fraud charges starts Monday, might not see the irony that, like the driver's wife, their e-mails will soon be testifying against them, both in court and in public opinion.
Enron's inbox first hit the internet in March 2003 when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made public more than 1.5 million e-mails from 176 Enron employees as part of its investigation of the company's manipulation of California energy markets in 2000.
Among the finds: Lay family members' thoughts about finding the perfect wedding photographer (someone who did one of the Kennedy's weddings), Enron executives angling for ambassadorships and positions in the Bush administration, instructions from Tom DeLay's staff to Lay and Skilling on how to handle $100,000 contributions and messages from Lay's secretary bemoaning the fact that she could not get tech support to fix Lay's phone, which would disconnect if answered before the third ring.
InBoxer, an antispam company, turned to the archive to help test its newest product, which scans company e-mails in real time for objectionable content or confidential information, according to CEO Roger Matus.
For an accurate test, Matus needed a sample of corporate e-mail in all its raw, unadulterated drama and glory.
Of the 500,000 e-mails InBoxer included in the database, the company's algorithms identified 10,275 with offensive words and another 71,268 that included potentially inappropriate messages, such as sexual innuendos or lists of employee Social Security numbers.
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