Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Gregory Heytings]

> 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.