[Scspamcop] Re: Spanish on the Fly

[Mike Easter]

rooster wrote:
> I was poking about trying to find out what the
> spamvertized site  <http://jaav[dot]es> is
> supposed to be in aid of. I don't speak
> Iberianese, but some of the text on the site
> suggests it might be soliciting 'pelo país'... or
> something like.
>
> Hola! Mi nombre es Jaav tengo 43 a�os a dia de
> hoy, soy
>                      valenciano y este es el
> primer dominio que&nbsp; tengo. Esta
>                      pagina esta concebida para
> dar a conocer un poco mis
>                      aficiones y como no un poco
> de mi
>
> I don't see the point in spamming for pen pals;
> not much money in it. Has anyone here some
> experience/insight as to what the "maguffin" is here?

Maybe there's a clue in the original spam.  Tracker?

The website is just that of the blogger Jaav who is 43 (y/o).  "Hello! My
name is Jaav I have 43 years today, I am Valencian and this is the first
domain I have. This page is designed to publicize a little my hobbies and
not a little like me."

One very nice way to translate a webpage which is in any of about two
dozen common and not-so-common languages is to go to googlewebsearch and
click on language tools and go to the "Translate a web page" function,
select the language to/from and input the page address.

What I like about that google languagetool function is that not only can
you navigate around the website getting all the pages linked translated,
but also there is a little 'popup' function so that if you mouse over a
term, the tool throws up the original language version so that you can
'finetune' the meaning by seeing the original.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin