Message-ID: <67c0d9b8@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] Newsgroups: comp.misc References: <20250225145045.044bbb00858658522a3652b7@gmail.moc> <87jz9dq2t1.fsf@example.com> <67be3d4e@news.ausics.net> <87zfi7hj5p.fsf@example.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 28 Feb 2025 07:31:36 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 38 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 2248 Salvador Mirzo wrote: > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes: >> Salvador Mirzo wrote: >>> Anton Shepelev 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. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#