RE: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Gregory Heytings]

> 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.

+1

> 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).

In fact this is not even necessary.  With GNU Mailman list administrators 
can define "topics" (regular expressions on subject lines), and list users 
can if the want subscribe only to the topics of the list in which they are 
interested.