"Of course that's over a baseline of 50%...)" That's still very sobering. Start plugging that kind of info into a SAS program and you might be able to pull out some probable suspects from a list of, say, known contributors to "Cypherpunks". Which reminds me... How often are solicitations for employment, software, and other nominally crypto-type stuff that appears on this list actually some sort of TLA info-harvesting tool? -TD

From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv@cdc.gov> To: "cypherpunks@lne.com" <cypherpunks@lne.com> Subject: text analysis Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:23:17 -0700

FWIW: There's a paragraph in the current _Science_ that mentions "Winnow", a program by some .il researchers that guesses the sex of authors by their writing. They claim 80% accuracy on general lit and 74% accuracy on 30 science papers.

(Of course that's over a baseline of 50%...)

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