From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:03:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: <10e79eeb32b5d8f49453fe62f145172d@skeletons.cc> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13417"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: "Paul W. Rankin" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 13:04:27 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 1kjhut-0003O9-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55040 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjhus-0002RG-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjhu7-00020k-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:59759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjhu3-0003OK-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:03:37 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0AUC3QJn000131 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:03:27 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0AUC41JX016614; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:04:01 GMT In-Reply-To: <10e79eeb32b5d8f49453fe62f145172d@skeletons.cc> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org 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:260061 Archived-At: > > During EmacsConf 2020 it became clear that there is a sizeable number of > people who use Emacs outside of a programming context, specifically in > the Humanities, and there was support for a mailing list dedicated to > this group. > > The benefit of such a list would allow those using Emacs within the > Humanities a way to become more directly involved with the project > without committing to the emacs-devel or help-gnu-emacs lists, which are > much more programming-focused than the average Humanities user may be > comfortable with or interested in. > Like Lars, I don't see what fundamental difference of scope between emacs-humanities and help-gnu-emacs is. Isn't the scope of emacs-humanities a subset of the scope of help-gnu-emacs? If so, would it not be simpler to add a "[humanities]" tag (for example) to posts on help-gnu-emacs which might be of interest to, or are posted by, humanities users? Another way to ask the same question: why would this list be limited to "humanities"? There are people who use Emacs neither for programming nor for the humanities.