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| Message-ID | <67c0d9b8@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| 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 | <vpahaf$2buae$1@paganini.bofh.team> <20250225145045.044bbb00858658522a3652b7@gmail.moc> <87jz9dq2t1.fsf@example.com> <67be3d4e@news.ausics.net> <87zfi7hj5p.fsf@example.com> |
| Date | 2025-02-28 07:31 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
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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Re: Babbage and Dark Mode Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-22 18:04 +0300
Re: Babbage and Dark Mode Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-23 23:29 -0300
The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2025-02-25 14:50 +0300
Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-25 15:47 -0300
Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-26 07:59 +1000
Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-02-25 23:25 +0000
Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-27 05:43 -0300
Re: The use of AI by spammers [was: Re: Babbage and Dark Mode] not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-28 07:31 +1000
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