At 11:06 PM -0700 5/13/01, Ryan Sorensen wrote:
>Another one I thought of as I was going over my writing.
>The way someone responds to email, at least as far as quoting and the
>spacing between quoted blocks and new text.
>
Hence my point about how somone interested in this problem should
make a long list of such signature or characteristic symbols. Asking
other people to make these lists is not nearly as useful as doing it
oneself.
(And not to do more of this work for you, as you seem to be doing it
now yourself, but you should also notice that some of us use
expressions others tend not to use. One should always be alert for
such expressions, lest one look only to simplistic markers such as
use of ellipses, em dashes, commas, etc. In fact, one will find just
such characteristic usages in this very paragraph! Not many others on
this list use the expression "One should...", as but one such
example.)
Of course, were I to try to disguise authorship of an article, I
might sprinkle in a few illiteracies of the current mode:
"Like what do we have to loose? My bad! Lates."
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
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