From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
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