Message-ID: <67be3d4e@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> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 26 Feb 2025 07:59:42 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 24 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:26690 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. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#