Eliot Spitzer’s golden rule: “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.”
The last one not to follow Spitzer’s rule is a media professor with a night job as communications adviser. It’s always fun to read an e-mail which says “confidential”. The memo (pdf, in Norw.) itself contains a fair amount of good analysis. The outrageous part is of course that the researcher played neutral expert at the same time as advising one of the parties.
