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Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam?

From Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam?
Date 2011-06-07 16:55 +0200
Organization Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Message-ID <8739jl7ktb.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> (permalink)
References <mailman.2530.1307450845.9059.python-list@python.org>

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Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> writes:

> On the 30th of May, I received an email from a man (I'll leave out his
> name, but it was properly male) offering to translate the docs for the
> gdmodule (which I maintain) into Belorussian. [...]

The same has happened on the gcc list, where it has been considered a
scam. See, e.g.,

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-05/msg00046.html

and messages referenced therein.

-- Alain.

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International translation of docs - is it a scam? Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2011-06-07 07:46 -0500
  Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-06-07 16:55 +0200
    Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam? Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2011-06-07 16:27 +0000
      Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam? Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com> - 2011-06-07 17:57 +0100

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