'About FreeBSD' international

[Robert Watson]

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
>
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