Of course, you'd never dream of going through your colleagues' desk
drawers. So naturally you wouldn't read their email either.
Here is a cautionary instance happened in relation with this rule.
The case of the snoopy foreign correspondent
In 1993, a highly regarded foreign correspondent in the Moscow bureau
of the Los Angeles Times was caught reading his coworkers' email. His colleagues
became suspicious when system records showed that someone had logged in
to check their email at times when they knew they hadn't been near the
computer. So they set up a sting operation. They planted false information
in messages from another one of the paper's foreign bureaus. The reporter
read the notes and later asked colleagues about the false information.
Bingo! As a disciplinary measure, he was immediately reassigned to another
position at the paper's Los Angeles bureau.
The moral: Failing to respect other people's privacy is not just
bad Netiquette. It could also cost you your job.
(Source: Rule 8-- The Core Rules of Netiquette)
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