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

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

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.

I read it as make 'double-you' (w) single i.e. to delete one of the two
'u's in "Ian <gay@sfuu.ca>" so that it becomes "Ian <gay@sfu.ca>".
I don't know if that resolves.  Whatever, it's an ambiguous riddle.

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