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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode]
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>> Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes:
>>>> Ian:
>>>>> *********** To reply by e-mail, make w single in address **************
>>>>
>>>> How long till AI becomes cheap enough for spammers to employ
>>>> it for unmunging such riddles?
>>> 
>>> I couldn't figure out the riddle in question here.  I'd take my hat to
>>> any intelligence that can.
>>
>> Their email has two 'u' characters, so I think you're meant to read
>> that as a 'w' (this might be more obvious with some fonts than
>> others). Then in the riddle to "make w single" means to "make w a
>> single character", so "uu" becomes "w".
>>
>> The w-ified domain resolves and has an MX record so it can receive
>> email (seen with command: "dig [domain] mx"), unlike the original.
>> So that's my guess.
> 
> You're brilliant!

As Sn!pe pointed out, make a riddle open-ended enough and everyone
can sound smart coming up with their own (different) answer to it!

> If you are a computer program, I take not just my hat to you, but
> would be happy to buy you a cup of coffee, if you could care
> about it. :)

Meer flesh and blood so far as I know. Yet really I believe
computers have been more intelligent than me since the start, in
specific ways. They'd be pretty useless things if they weren't.

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