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|    Stefan Ram to All    |
|    [newsgroup]Statistics: Style    |
|    10 Feb 25 13:51:51    |
      From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de               So, I tried to track down some stylistic similarities between        senders.               Well, I was expecting tons of entries with "...rachel..." in my        program output, but nada!               To keep things cool and not throw anyone under the bus, I'll only        mention these if they are already known equalities or are suggested        by sender name similarities.               (But I got to say - here and in most other newsgroups - I didn't        really find many surprising style matches that would hint at        the same person using different handles. So legit "sockpuppet"        accounts are actually pretty rare among heavy posters!)               However, even in the following cases, wrong matches are totally        in the cards: There are definitely different folks out there        who are honest-to-goodness two separate people, but they've        got writing styles that are like two peas in a pod.              'really real' 'don freeman'              'The Hysterical Bride' 'THB'       'The Hysterical Bride' 'TheHystericalBride'              'The Bloomfield Buddy' 'The Bloomfield Bloviator'              'Martin' 'Upbeat & Cheerful Martin'              'Treadleson' 'treadleson'              'Tif' 'tif'              'Lone Pilgrim' 'Pilgrim'              'PGPearson1954@aol.com' 'PGPearson1954'              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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