On the contrary, I am definetly advocating 'pluri-cultures' instead of 'monoculture'. Again, I feel I have been misread. I don't react against newsgroups. I am just saying that newsgroups will be a small fraction of the total volume of info available on the net. And thus, having newsgroups 'language sensitive', while being terrific, won't do much if the rest of the net is in English only.
Translation is time consuming and expensive.
This is beautiful, and should be the moto of a world community. The French are not the only people with this problem. MIME-capable email clients can then display messages in the appropriate charset. And so on. Languages such as Chinese of course do present some unique issues, but even so there are already defined RFC specified ways to deal with them in email and Usenet messages, see RFC1842.