On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Casey Woods wrote:
> >
> > > Check out this one.  A few well placed .'s and tt only scored a 2.6 on
> > > my system:
> >
> > Yep, I'm seeing this stuff too (though not in huge numbers yet). I'm going
> > to examine the body rules in a bit more detail, and if it makes sense, to
> > basically remove all punctuation chars (everything except whitespace and
> > letters/numbers) from the body tests.
>
> I've been wondering about just adding a test that looks for oddly placed
> punctuation in the midst of words.  Something like the GAPPY_TEXT rule,
> except that it'd match even if there were only one or two "misplaced"
> punctuations but require that there be several such words (not necessarily
> consecutive).

The trouble with that is it sounds like it might hit false positives quite
highly. You'd have to have some sort of second test like LINE_OF_YELLING
does that checks how many times it got hit.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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