Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Pankaj Jangid]

Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

>>
>> 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.

With all due respect for the original idea, I just want to point out
that we can also use `emacs-tangets' mailing list if the goal is not to
indulge in help or development topics.

BTW, for the admins, I went to this url to check the description of
`emacs-tangets' and found nothing there:
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents