From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:43:00 +0300 Message-ID: References: <10e79eeb32b5d8f49453fe62f145172d@skeletons.cc> <87pn3vr605.fsf@red-bean.com> <837dq3ldvh.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2ijo3tr.fsf@red-bean.com> <87eekao7qq.fsf@red-bean.com> <2a314856-5655-4479-9bc4-d8f60cb14af3@default> <20201201085735.GC26076@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32279"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 12:46:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kk47V-0008IK-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:46:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kk47U-0007gU-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 06:46:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kk469-00060N-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 06:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:34143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kk466-0003NG-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 06:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.16]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0013.000000005FC62CB8.000029C7; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 11:44:56 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201201085735.GC26076@tuxteam.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:260115 Archived-At: * tomas@tuxteam.de [2020-12-01 11:58]: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:17:23PM -0800, Drew Adams wrote: > > Chiming in here, but not with a strong opinion... > > [...] > > > 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). > > At first blush a good idea. After giving it a second > thought, I think one of the strong points of a separate > list might be that non-hackers (by which I mean those > that consider themselves to be non-hackers!) might feel > intimidated by volume, style or content (or all three!) > of help-gnu-emacs. > > I concur that the cost of setting up a new mailing list > is minimal. That then introduces moderation demands or logically exclusion of some hackerish talks there. Hackers will be first to find the list.