From: John Calvin (mercurial@disinfo.net)
Date: Sun Aug 20 2000 - 05:36:39 MDT
>At best we could identify the account from which the post originated,
>perhaps even the computer. But it still would not provide courtroom
>*proof* of which carbon unit made the post.
Gee Spike, isn't handwriting admissable as evidence? Wasn't it you who mentioned the availability of pattern recognition software usable on text files? With a fairly substantial test run would anyone be able to demonstrate the reliability of such pattern recognition software enough to clearly show that even though anyone could have used that particular machine and account they could not have so exactly duplicated style of some named individual? Is that doable?
I would like to continue this particular discussion under a different thread (such as "author identifiability"). I would think that this is an important issue given the points that you have brought up.
John Calvin
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