Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Peter Pearson Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: International translation of docs - is it a scam? Date: 7 Jun 2011 16:27:32 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <9571rkFq0mU1@mid.individual.net> References: <8739jl7ktb.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> X-Trace: individual.net ZYnJpvOWXY5eslj4RFF5xQwELMQ6vxHl+mdSED8nVC1Y+K/Z4h Cancel-Lock: sha1:qmXy+kE8AjWaGdV9oVogeXYoPaQ= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7161 On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:55:28 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > Chris Gonnerman 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. Interesting. That link leads to a discussion of presumed link farmers using Google Translate to translate other people's pages, in exchange for links. So I asked Google Translate to translate Chris Gonnerman's page, http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html , and the results were identical (on cursory examination) to the page produced by Gonnerman's correspondent, as reported in the original post. (I won't post that URL here lest I support the farm.) -- To email me, substitute nowhere->spamcop, invalid->net.