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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
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Karl Fogel |
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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:31:44 -0600 |
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On 30 Nov 2020, Drew Adams wrote:
>Chiming in here, but not with a strong opinion...
>
>> The cost if the experiment fails is a dead list sitting on a server.
>> That cost doesn't seem very high to me in any case
>
>... but there's also the possible cost of others who
>might be interested or able to help missing some info
>or questions that they might be able to help with.
>
>emacs-tangents is hardly used. It's essentially
>a catch-all.
>
>help-emacs-window isn't used a lot. But it's pretty
>precisely targeted. "Humanities" is not (IMO).
>
>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).
>
>The same approach could be adopted for any other
>potential "subgroup" of an Emacs list. And it makes
>it pretty easy for people to filter, sort, etc.,
>whether or not they're interesting in topics of the
>subgroup.
>
>Just a thought. The basic idea is to try something
>out, to see how much traffic/interest there is,
>before sending people off to a new list.
That sounds like a good (and easy) approach to see if there really is a
well-defined interest group here. Gregory Heytings also suggested it.
(And, of course, anyone is free to go and create an 'emacs-humanities' mailing
list on some server that they have access to -- there's no strong reason it has
to be @gnu.org, except for a bit of findability bonus.)
Best regards,
-Karl
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, (continued)
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Karl Fogel, 2020/11/30
- RE: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Drew Adams, 2020/11/30
- RE: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Paul W. Rankin, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Michael Albinus, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Corwin Brust, 2020/11/30
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Zhu Zihao, 2020/11/29
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Richard Stallman, 2020/11/29
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/30
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/30