<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div> PETSc announce has more people than petsc-users but it is not clear that everyone on petsc-users is on petsc-announce. Everyone should join petsc-announce but they may not. </div><div><br class=""></div><div> We could send them to both with the same label but then many people will get two emails which is annoying. </div><div><br class=""></div><div> Maybe use the labels [PETSc Job opening] and [PETSc Release] to give people an easier filter. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div> An approach which is probably not simple is that anything sent to petsc-announce is also sent to everyone on petsc-users who IS NOT on petsc-announce so everyone gets only exactly one copy regardless of whether they are on both or either. </div><div><br class=""></div><div> 1) Maybe we could just manually remove everyone from announce who is in users and make sure that anything sent to announce also gets sent to users.</div><div> 2) Or whenever anyone joins users we sign them up for announce automatically and then only send such message to announce (the webpage could indicate you will </div><div> automatically also be added to announce. This seems the least painful, but then someone now needs to add to announce everyone who is on users but not</div><div> on announce.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> People could get fancy with filters to get only one copy but that is obnoxious to expect them to do that. </div><div><br class=""></div><div> Barry</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Junchao Zhang <<a href="mailto:junchao.zhang@gmail.com" class="">junchao.zhang@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">The usefulness depends on how many users subscribe to petsc-announce.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since there are not many such emails, I think it is fine to send to petsc-users. And in these emails, we can always add a link to a job section on the petsc website. Once petsc users get used to this, they may go to the website later when they are finding jobs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">--Junchao Zhang</div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:04 PM Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" class="">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">That is a good idea. Anyone against this?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Matt</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:26 PM Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@petsc.dev" target="_blank" class="">bsmith@petsc.dev</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div> Maybe something as simple for petsc-announce<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Subject: [Release] ....</div><div class=""> Subject: [Job opening] ....</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Then when you send out the most recent job opening you can include in the message something like </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> "The PETSc announce mailing list will continue to be low volume. We will now tag each message in the subject line with [Release], [Job opening], or possibly other tags so you can have your mail program filter out messages you are not interested in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks for your continued support,"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2020, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I got the second email in less than one month about sending a job opening to the PETSc list.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Should we have some policy about this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we should encourage it, but in a way that does not produce noise for people. I think there are no other good outlets for computational jobs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Should we have a section of the website for this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like something that just selected some petsc-users mail from the archive with a query in the URL.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3) If we encourage it, should we have a special header for job posts in the mailing list?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This would facilitate 2).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Matt<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br class="">-- Norbert Wiener</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br class="">-- Norbert Wiener</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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