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   Salvador Mirzo to Computer Nerd Kev   
   Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re:    
   27 Feb 25 05:43:46   
   
   From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   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!  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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