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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260101 Archived-At: 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=20 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.