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Subject: Re: Ken Arndt and Don Black:  *CONTROVER
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 15:23:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 15:23:18 1985
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      ``Style'' is not a suitable tool for detecting authorship.  The usual
tests for such things are based on word transition counts, i.e. how many
times does ``so'' appear after ``are'', applied after deleting all words not
in the standard top 1000 or so in the language.  Start coding, guys.

					John Nagle