International translation of docs - is it a scam?

[Peter Pearson]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:55:28 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> Chris Gonnerman <chris at 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.

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.)

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