The trouble is the current policy is 'whitelist only'... so I need the proxy installed on a server that is *on the whitelist*... which will take a little time to arrange.
If you construct a noop translation (English to English for example) Google becomes a (HTML only) proxy. Here's an example:
http://google.com/translate_c?langpair=en%7Cen&u=http://python.org/ -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
