Re:Textual analysis

It's not obvious to me how you'd change your writing style to defeat

At 10:36 AM 12/14/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: these

textual analysis schemes--would it really be as simple as changing the average length of sentences and getting rid of the big words, or would there still be ways to determine your identity from that text?

Its like steganalysis. Its an arms race between measuring your own signatures vs. what the Adversary can measure. If sentence length is a metric known to you, you can write filters that warn you. Similarly for the Adversary. You end up in an arms race over metrics ---who has the more sensitive ones that the other does not control for?