Re: ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?

People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be interested in a
Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the net eons ago.  It should
be in the '85 or '86 comp.sources under the name markov3.  I recall that this
was a program that fed enough posts from a given poster would create another
post in their "style"; it was kinda fun.

Jon

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According to Jon Boede:
> 
> People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be interested in a
> Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the net eons ago.  It should
> be in the '85 or '86 comp.sources under the name markov3.  I recall that this
> was a program that fed enough posts from a given poster would create another
> post in their "style"; it was kinda fun.

Has anyone found this program?  I'd sure like a copy of it.  Thanx in advance.


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J. Michael Diehl asks:
> According to Jon Boede:
> > 
> > People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be
> > interested in a Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the
> > net eons ago.
>
> Has anyone found this program?  I'd sure like a copy of it.  Thanx in
> advance. 

I found it in a net.sources archive (which should give a trip through the
wayback machine for some old-timers...)  You can now get it via anonymous
ftp in ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/utils/markov.shar.gz

jim