Re: Computer unmasks Anonymous writer...

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 09:20 AM 2/16/96 -0800, Alexander Chislenko wrote:
>  I ran my essays through Word grammar checker a while ago,
>and was surprised how stable the grammar statistics were.
>Complexity of the text (grade level) was the same to the decimal point,
>average length of sentences was consistent, etc.
>People also use the same styles of smileys or *highlights*, make
>consistent spelling errors, have their habits of indentation, etc.

What's the next step?  Writing a program which "fakes" somebody's style, right?