From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: pwr@skeletons.cc, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:31:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtyyl8v3.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a314856-5655-4479-9bc4-d8f60cb14af3@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:17:23 -0800 (PST)")
On 30 Nov 2020, Drew Adams wrote:
>Chiming in here, but not with a strong opinion...
>
>> The cost if the experiment fails is a dead list sitting on a server.
>> That cost doesn't seem very high to me in any case
>
>... but there's also the possible cost of others who
>might be interested or able to help missing some info
>or questions that they might be able to help with.
>
>emacs-tangents is hardly used. It's essentially
>a catch-all.
>
>help-emacs-window isn't used a lot. But it's pretty
>precisely targeted. "Humanities" is not (IMO).
>
>An alternative might be to start by inviting potential
>"humanities" participants to use help-gnu-emacs (or
>emacs-tangents?), but with a particular prefix in the
>Subject line. If volume becomes reasonably high then
>a new mailing list could be spun off to handle it (but
>with the attendant lack of visibility to some that I
>mentioned above).
>
>The same approach could be adopted for any other
>potential "subgroup" of an Emacs list. And it makes
>it pretty easy for people to filter, sort, etc.,
>whether or not they're interesting in topics of the
>subgroup.
>
>Just a thought. The basic idea is to try something
>out, to see how much traffic/interest there is,
>before sending people off to a new list.
That sounds like a good (and easy) approach to see if there really is a well-defined interest group here. Gregory Heytings also suggested it.
(And, of course, anyone is free to go and create an 'emacs-humanities' mailing list on some server that they have access to -- there's no strong reason it has to be @gnu.org, except for a bit of findability bonus.)
Best regards,
-Karl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-30 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-29 6:57 Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 1:24 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 3:16 ` Bob Newell
2020-12-01 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-01 10:59 ` 황병희
2020-11-30 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 3:55 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 4:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 6:03 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-03 8:30 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-03 9:15 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-12-03 10:35 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-12 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-14 22:28 ` Karl Fogel
2020-12-03 9:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 10:34 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-03 10:16 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-04 5:55 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-03 20:10 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-03 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 21:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-03 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 23:41 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-30 13:39 ` Leo Vivier
2020-11-30 17:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-11-30 21:27 ` Karl Fogel
2020-11-30 23:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 23:29 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 23:31 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2020-12-01 8:57 ` tomas
2020-12-01 11:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-01 20:55 ` tomas
2020-12-01 17:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-02 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-02 6:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-12-01 9:17 ` tomas
2020-12-01 11:40 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 9:36 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-30 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 16:19 ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-30 19:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 3:53 ` Zhu Zihao
2020-11-30 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-30 9:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-30 12:03 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-30 13:29 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-11-30 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 14:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 16:13 ` Corwin Brust
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