***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Santi, I'm be no means an expert, but one way to do this would be to read in all of your emails as one text (or similar) file extracted either from the email server or the email client. For example, Eudora email software allows you to select multiple e-mails and save them as one text file. Then using SAS or similar software, read in this file and extract the text following the "To:", "From:", "CC:" , etc. headers. In SAS I'd use the INDEX and SUBSTR functions to find the beginning and end of the email address. For example, you might need to cut "To: Michael Whitcomb <[log in to unmask]>" to become "[log in to unmask]". Using the '<' and '>' characters as indicators of the start and end of the email address would allow you to do this. Hope this helps. Michael At 07:17 AM 3/25/2004, Santi Furnari wrote: >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > >Sorry, I didn't specify my e-mail' subject. > > > > >-- Messaggio originale -- > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:26:23 +0100 > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > >From: Santi Furnari <[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Dear All, > >I'm currently working on a research employing social network analysis on >an e-mail archive. My problem is how to extract automatically from the "from", >"to" and "cc" fields of EACH e-mail a relational matrix. Does anybody of >you have an idea or suggestion (some software or short cut)? > > > >Thanks a lot, > > > >Regards, > > > >Santi Furnari > > > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > >network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send > >an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > >UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > >_____________________________________________________________________ >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send >an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line >UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Whitcomb Assistant Director of Institutional Research Wesleyan University 237 High Street, 305 North College Middletown, CT 06459-0280 Phone 860.685.5340 Fax - 860.685.2011 Email [log in to unmask] www.wesleyan.edu/ir _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.