Interior-Point Mailing List

The mailing list allows you to send announcements of new papers, conferences, software, and special journal issues relevant to interior-point methods to a large group by mailing your message to a single address.

All papers and announcements send through the list can be found in the Interior-Point Archive.

This page contains information about

• Getting on and off the list
• Mailing to the list
• List policy

Click here to send comments/suggestions about the mailing list, or send mail directly to [email protected].

This area is currently maintained by Joe Czyzyk and Steve Wright at Argonne National Laboratory.

Getting On and Off the List

You can join the mailing list by clicking here.

Alternatively, you can send a one-line message to the list manager program Majordomo. You can also unsubscribe from the list and get various other kinds of information by communicating directly with Majordomo. The address of Majordomo is [email protected]. The email message you send to this address can contain one or more of the following instructions.

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Find out who is on the list

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Subscribe yourself to the list. The address of the account you are mailing from will be entered on the list, and you will be sent a confirmation message.

unsubscribe

Get yourself off the list. This only works if the address you are mailing from matches the one on the list. If it doesn't, you can say "unsubscribe [address]" where [address] is your address as it appears on the list. The (human) operator will then intervene to remove you from the list.

info

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help

Retrieve other info, including more commands

Mailing to the List

To send email to the entire list, use the address [email protected]. Before you do, read the List Policy below. Please do not send service requests, subscribes, unsubscribes, etc, to this address. Look closely, dear reader - the email address for service requests has the character string REQUEST in it.

If you want to announce a new paper to the whole list, the best way to do it is through the submission web page. This makes up a nice neat message for you to send the list, and makes up a nice chunk of html code that the archive managers can use to update the Interior-Point Methods Online Archive conveniently.

List Policy

• Please send announcements of papers, not the entire paper. Sending the whole paper puts a strain on our mail handler and is an outmoded way of doing business. If people want you to mail them the entire paper, they will contact you directly.
• The typical announcement will contain
  • Title
  • Authors
  • Abstract
  • Technical Report number for citation purposes
  • Instructions on how to retrieve the paper via anonymous ftp or the Web.

  The technical report number should also appear on the first page of the paper itself.

  As mentioned above, the easiest way to ensure that you have not missed anything is to use the contribution form.

• We understand that some people do not yet have access to anonymous ftp or the Web. If this is the case, send an email message to the address [email protected] that contains
  • an announcement of your paper in the format just described
  • A uuencoded, compressed dvi or postscript file containing the complete paper.

  We will set up the paper on our anonymous ftp area at Argonne, and tell you how to retrieve it. You can then announce the paper to the entire list in the usual way, incorporating the information we sent you on how to retrieve the paper.

• Other short announcements of general interest to the IP community (workshops, meetings, special issues) are also welcome.
• Long announcements (more than 250 lines) will be filtered out by the mail handler and discarded.
• Support of the list and archive is time-consuming and is currently being done on a voluntary basis. We cannot guarantee that everything will be kept strictly up to date or that service requests will be responded to immediately.