Re: babelgnus

[Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>]

>>>>> "larsi" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  larsi> Is babelfish feeling ill at the moment? When I try to
  larsi> translate something, I just get back oodles of html and then
  larsi> "En Français:", and then lots of HTML, but no (French)
  larsi> content.

I looked an hour ago and it wasn't working for "x -> English"
translations (returning a blank result). Now it seems to be alive
again. 

The debate about automated (mis)use of this type of web service is
very interesting; it is similar to the issue of filtering http proxies
that some people use to avoid junk ads in web pages. I suspect that
there is a sufficiently large proportion of unsophisticated users who
will view advertising for providers not to waste energy on thinking up
strategies to annoy freeloaders (not that it would be too difficult
for them to generated HTML pages which are impossible to wash
automatically).

It's wonderful that open protocols (and w3) make it so easy to do
something like babel.el.

-- 
Eric Marsden
It's elephants all the way down