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Re: What You Say in Work E-Mails
By Stephen Barr
Thursday, August 17, 2006; Page D04

A lawyer at the Small Business Administration received and sent more than 100 e-mails through his government computer in support of the Green Party in California. A federal board has ordered his firing.
A former chief of staff at the General Services Administration traded e-mails with lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Prosecutors used the e-mails to link the two, and a federal jury convicted the ex-government official of lying and obstructing justice.
A recent audit by the inspector general for tax administration found e-mail at the Internal Revenue Service that violated agency policy. The audit turned up a large percentage of chain letters, jokes and pictures that, while harmless, increased the risk of computer virus infections, the report said. Other e-mails contained hate speech and sexual content or facilitated commercial activities, such as outside employment.
Inappropriate workplace use of e-mail is not new. But as e-mail increasingly substitutes for face-to-face conversation, it seems that more employees send messages that get them into trouble.
"When people are on the Internet or using e-mail, there is almost an unconscious dimension they have entered," said Scott Bloch , the head of the federal Office of Special Counsel.

in The Washington Post