Hi folks,

I have been searching the Mailman website and have not found any reference to what I am looking for, i.e. translating e-mail. I am not talking about translating the Mailman software or documentation but translating the e-mails that people send to the mailing list.

I am looking for the following functionality in a mailing list software:

• As an administrator:

  • set up some default machine translation (MT) engine. For example, I want to use Babelfish for translating between English and Spanish but I wat to use some other engine for translating between German and Swedish.

  • specify the subject of the mailing list and thus improving the translation results. For instance, I can specify that the mailing list is about "Technical -> Operating Systems -> Minix" (just kidding).

• As a user:

  • I want to subscribe to the mailing list and specify my language (natural) language preferences. Say I want specify {Catalan, Spanish, German}.

  • e-mail going to the list gets sent to a machine translation before it gets sent to me. I can optionaly say to the mailing list software that I want to receive also the original message.

  • If I do not like the translation of an e-mail I can choose some other machine translation engine. I may decide that some other translation engine does a better job or even pay to get get better translations. Maybe the administrator forgot to specify a machine translation engine for Euskera<->Farsi and I know of one that just started operating.

I would appreciate any information you may have on this topic. Maybe somebody has started implementing this in Mailman or is already implemented? Send me any comments, problems you see on the aforementioned working schema, flames, ...

Thanks a lot for your time!

Rafa

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