Hi David and All,
As far as agreement from the participants to have their words translated, that could be resolved when they signed up by asking them not to agree, but to disagree, to actively say they did not want to be translated. If an existing list were "converted" to translation, the issue could be handled similarly: open the discussion, and if it were a comfortable thought for "enough" of the participants, allow opting out, rather than seeking active agreement.
Yes, this would be simply a change in the agreement when signing up for new members (e.g. that all posts are public domain), old members will have to be informed with the opportunity to cancel. If you don't disagree in a certain period of time, you accept. This is not good but quite a usual way (see Facebook, myspace and so on). Of course the agreement must be in compliance with the list service provider conditions.
The core difficulty would be the expense of setting something up a list or software system which could accommodate the implied options: tracking and not translating those who had opted out, handling individual-to-individual translated responses, and of course selecting and integrating an
I think I would not do this individual-based. This would be too hard if you have a continuous thread and then write a summary/translation of some persons who agree and some who do not. The total context may suffer. So this would be a general thing, I think.
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