From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:11:28 +0800
To: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com
Subject: Re: Risks of a style anonymizer?
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From:	IN%"wlkngowl@unix.asb.com"  "Deranged Mutant" 17-FEB-1996 18:49:54.40

>One risk of "style anonymizers", though: if the style becomes too generic
>it's just another levelling of readability.  Usenet and mailing lists can
>become that much more boring, if not stupidified with too many spelling
>errors and grammatical abuses.

	Having style anonymizers that didn't create spelling problems, but just
filtered them out would be a solution to the latter. The former problem can be
taken care of by having many different styles that can be used. For instance,
it might notice that your sentence length variation wasn't enough for a given
style of writing, and prompt you to write some shorter (and/or longer)
sentences - including via breaking up the ones you've written already. One
would use a different style setting for each nym.
	-Allen