Comments on ‘Boffin builds sex-selecting email analysis software’

Link needed 

We need a link to a site where we can paste our emails in and find out what sex we are please.

Sex Offender Training Tool 

Great.. just what we need, a tool to help sex offenders train on being feminine to lure girls into a meeting.

Such tools exist 

Boffin

They're just not that accurate. I remember pasting pieces of text into one of these things years ago and having different ones come up different genders.

Here's a site that has an algorithm for doing that 

Gates Horns

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

But it may not be that reliable. I just tested it on Lester Haines' latest piece:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/

and it says he's a girl.

Strangely, it also says the same about Steve Ballmer after analysing his latest threatening letter to Yahoo! I've never seen him as a Stephanie, but I guess you never know ...

balderdash! ! 

Paris Hilton

So, if it thinks I'm a woman because of the lack of manly comments in my email, should I be complemented or insulted...

PH, simply because

"Just what we need...." 

Paris Hilton

"Great.. just what we need, a tool to help IT blokes train on being feminine to lure women into a date over email."

Corrected ;-)

Steven R

Paris, because she knows all about luring the opposite sex.

Old News 

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This has been available for years. Shame Reg isn't doing some basic research before running a puff-piece

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

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