Computer unmasks Anonymous writer...

[Mark M.]

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On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:

> 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?

It's been done already.  A program was posted here a while ago that could
actually fake a person's writing style by analyzing word patterns.  It does
a pretty good job, too.  I can e-mail it to anyone who is interested.

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