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Did anybody get a reply from reddit if you sent an email to the solution? I am wondering how long should I wait to be vindicated.

By the way, to get around the problem of slow, asynchronous bounce for the wrong solution address, I connected over SMTP to see if the answer email address(recipient) is valid or not for reddit.com. You can probably use that as a quicker test to validate if you have the right answer.

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If you made a serious attempt to solve the problem, and got three alpha-numeric characters followed by a null byte, I'd say you're pretty much guaranteed to have the right answer.

If you want to triple-check, I registered an HN user with that name at about the same time jedberg submitted this entry. Don't want to spoil his fun, though, so I'm not going to post anything with that name just yet :-)

I've been replying as quickly as I can. If you said anything that requires more than "Yep, you got it" it'll take a little longer.

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