Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

["Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Hi Eli,

Sorry for the delayed response.

Upon consulting Wikipedia, it seems that in the US the term "Humanities" 
has a narrower definition, i.e. as distinct from the arts and social 
sciences. For emacs-deval readers in the US, emacs-humanities would 
cover the Liberal Arts.

So, a more precise description:

This list is for general discussion on using GNU Emacs in the Humanities 
and Emacs-related topics that are interesting to those who study or 
otherwise participate in the Humanities (also called Liberal Arts in N. 
America). Discussion here welcomes contributions from any GNU Emacs user 
(or potential user) involved in the disciplines of: anthropology, 
archaeology, classics, history, linguistics and languages, law and 
politics, literature, philosophy, religion, or the performing or visual 
arts.

Participants are assumed not to have programming knowledge and respected 
as such. Support that requires any writing of code should be directed to 
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.


How's that? I'm ambivalent about listing all the separate disciplines... 
But I don't think this description needs to be set in stone; I imagine 
it will evolve as the list gains traction (or not).

I'm happy to moderate, although I think the ideal would be to have at 
least one additional moderator because sometimes I go stretches without 
attending to email. (I was sure I saw someone else in this thread put 
their hand up but upon reading back I think perhaps I misread.) I am 
painfully fickle when it comes to email addresses, so to be safe it 
probably should be hello@paulwrankin.com.


On 2020-12-03 00:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Ping!  Paul, I'm waiting for your responses, and will create the list
> once we have that figured out.  TIA.
> 
>> Then I think this different scope should be somehow mentioned in the
>> list description.  Could you give some examples of what you envision
>> as good topics to discuss on this new list, and how they differ from
>> discussions on help-gnu-emacs or emacs-devel?  With such examples in
>> hand, we could try coming up with a better description, because what
>> you proposed is too similar to help-gnu-emacs.
>> 
>> One other thing is that the list will need a moderator, to handle the
>> small number of valid posts by those who aren't subscribers.  Would
>> you like to be the moderator, and if so, would you like the moderation
>> requests to arrive at the email address you used in this discussion?
>> If not, what other moderator address should I use?
>> 
>> Once we have these two aspects figured out, I will create the list.