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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode]
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:43:46 -0300
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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!  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. :)