Re: [emacs-humanities] Keeping this mailing list on-topic.

[Edgar Vincent]

Hello Bastien, hello everyone,

While I understand that off-topic subjects may be annoying to subscribers,
I tend to agree with Bastien, especially given the fact that the traffic on the 
list
is very low.

This is the reason why I answered the email about Zizek: I am interested not 
only
in using Emacs in the context of the humanities, but also in other people using 
it said context.
I assume that most people using Emacs are IT professionals, and few of us
have a background in the humanities or the social sciences. This list can thus 
serve as
as gathering point for this small minority of users.

Perhaps there could be another list called “emacs-humanities-offtopic”? I don’t 
know
what the general policy is.

Wishing you all a nice weekend,

Edgar Vincent

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Karl,
>
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:
>
>> But I would appreciate it if we could stick to the charter of this
>> mailing list: Emacs as used in the humanities.
>
> I understand your concern, but instead of trying to move off-topic
> discussions elsewhere, I would suggest to let the topic of this list
> evolve as “Emacs users and humanities”.
>
> This includes the topic “Emacs as used in the humanities” but is way
> larger, letting Emacs users discuss humanities among themselves.
>
> I suspect this larger topic better reflects why people subscribe to
> this list, as the recent discussions suggests.
>
> WDYT?