Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2020-12-03 19:43, Jean Louis wrote:
> You said people are welcome who are potential users of GNU Emacs. I
> hope that also people will be welcome who are potentially interested
> users in the discussion that is going on even if they are not involved
> directly in some of those disciplines. There is anyway no method of
> verification who is involved in some of those disciplines.

There is no barrier to entry. If you visit plato.stanford.edu or write a 
haiku and now you are involved in the Humanities as far as I see.

> I cannot see than how is the mailing list related to Emacs. Then maybe
> you just wish to call it "humanities"?
>
> When there is even setting with init file involved it is already so
> that user is participating in the programming and that shall be
> encouraged.

The prevalent assumption that Emacs = programming is something this list 
attempts to step away from. Emacs can be used without any programming 
knowledge. I used it through my Bachelor's degree without writing a line 
of Elisp.

> Then to tell such users to go to other mailing list is rather counter
> productive, as let us say student of the law suddenly wish to write a
> report in Org mode, should we then just bounce users from one to other
> mailing lists, that does not seem useful.

Eli was concerned about too much similarity with help-gnu-emacs. It is 
not my desire to bounce anyone.

> I hope it will not be moderated to exclude people for expressing their
> opinions as the description above tells me it leads there. Maybe in
> the next revision it will look so much better.

I don't understand what you mean here. The description is an open as I 
could imagine. You are welcome and encouraged to provide another draft 
of the description if you want any revisions.