As somebody stated, BT is an international forum.
A lot of extremely interesting people post extreemely interesting messages - that's obvious. However, not everyone speaks English on this small globe:-)
So Eric, is it illegal to translate messages (or, more on that - compilation of messages)? I've done it several times - first was EJ's thoughts on a boat for a beginner, second - reasons why all boats are different in sizes (compilation of Corran's, EJ's and Prijon rep's messages)... Those are really interesting messages, however not for those, who do not speak English - and after several requests, I've made a translation (with the original author's names, of course).

Is it good or you're against it?
We could discuss this issue via e-mail - gleb.korolev@novavox.ru
Everybody is welcome to share their thoughts on this particular problem with the translation of messages.