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  • Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode]

    From Salvador Mirzo@smirzo@example.com to comp.misc on Thu Feb 27 05:43:46 2025
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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. :)
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  • From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to comp.misc on Fri Feb 28 07:31:36 2025
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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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