Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Jean Louis]

* tomas@tuxteam.de <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.