Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:00 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: board@FreeBSDFoundation.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'About FreeBSD' international Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106151221250.75863@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4DF86607.6070303@gmx.us> References: <4DF86607.6070303@gmx.us>
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This might well be an instance of a link-farming scam against high-pagerank web sites, in which web pages are passed through Google Translate and then your "return link" then boosts ad revenues for the target site. (We get a lot of these e-mails at cl.cam.ac.uk due to high page rank -- the names on the e-mails vary, but the text is otherwise the same -- googling the phone number is enlightening :-) ) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Alyona Lompar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm willing to translate page located at http://www.freebsd.org/about.html to > the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your > written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post the translation to my > blog. The translation is intended only for web, no print copies planned. > > Visitors of your website, who come from Minsk (Belorussia) will be the ones, > who will read this blogpost, that's the only way to spread them, no > additional instruments we can use. Every translation we ever do does not > costs a penny for the webpage, which is translated. All we ask is to link > back in whatever way you feel confident about it. > > You can leave a voice message and I will call you back, if you prefer a call > instead of emails. Do you prefer email or IM for contact (if any questions > regarding the translation arise)? What instant messaging client (if any) do > you use? AIM, MSN, Skype? > Thank you! > > Sincerely, > Alyona Lompar > +(360) 488-0303 > > --- > This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to > which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that > any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If > you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying > to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. >
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