"Auric__" <[email protected]s> writes:

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

For people who know Bash, but like to learn write (better) scripts I
wrote an article about a script I wrote to create and add a swapfile:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/script-add-swap-file-cecil-westerhof

You can get the script here:
https://github.com/CecilWesterhof/BashLibrary/blob/master/bin/addSwap
File.sh

In the future, please don't multi-post. Crosspost instead. (Also found in alt.os.linux.)

I would not know how, but that is not a problem: that is easy to find
out I think.

But I often have seen rants about cross-posting. So I was wondering
what the consensus is about this in the newsgroup.

--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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On 16.08.2022 at 19:33, Cecil Westerhof scribbled:

"Auric__" <[email protected]s> writes:

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

For people who know Bash, but like to learn write (better) scripts
I wrote an article about a script I wrote to create and add a
swapfile:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/script-add-swap-file-cecil-westerhof

You can get the script here:
https://github.com/CecilWesterhof/BashLibrary/blob/master/bin/addSwap >> File.sh

In the future, please don't multi-post. Crosspost instead. (Also
found in alt.os.linux.)

I would not know how, but that is not a problem: that is easy to find
out I think.

You simply put multiple newsgroups in the "To:" or "Newsgroups:" field
of your newsreader's editor — I'm not familiar with Gnus, sorry — with
the names separated by a comma.

A good newsreader will recognize cross-posted threads and will not open
them as a new thread when you select a different newsgroup for reading
and said group was included in the cross-post list — it will however
display the followups if they themselves were not cross-posted.

If you multi-post on the other hand, then the newsreader does not see
any correlation and will regard it as just another new and standalone
thread. And of course, people won't be able to reply to your thread
just once and have their reply propagated to the same other newsgroups
where the thread is posted all in one go.

--
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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Aragorn <[email protected]> writes:

On 16.08.2022 at 19:33, Cecil Westerhof scribbled:

"Auric__" <[email protected]s> writes:

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

For people who know Bash, but like to learn write (better) scripts
I wrote an article about a script I wrote to create and add a
swapfile:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/script-add-swap-file-cecil-westerhof

You can get the script here:
https://github.com/CecilWesterhof/BashLibrary/blob/master/bin/addSwap >> >> File.sh

In the future, please don't multi-post. Crosspost instead. (Also
found in alt.os.linux.)

I would not know how, but that is not a problem: that is easy to find
out I think.

You simply put multiple newsgroups in the "To:" or "Newsgroups:" field
of your newsreader's editor — I'm not familiar with Gnus, sorry — with the names separated by a comma.

A good newsreader will recognize cross-posted threads and will not open
them as a new thread when you select a different newsgroup for reading
and said group was included in the cross-post list — it will however display the followups if they themselves were not cross-posted.

If you multi-post on the other hand, then the newsreader does not see
any correlation and will regard it as just another new and standalone
thread. And of course, people won't be able to reply to your thread
just once and have their reply propagated to the same other newsgroups
where the thread is posted all in one go.

Well, if I do not see people starkly disagreeing I will start
cross-posting.

--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:35:35 -0400, Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, if I do not see people starkly disagreeing I will start
cross-posting.

Use of cross-posting is ok as long as there are not too many groups, and it's on topic for all included groups.

Try to limit it to no more than 3 groups.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]>:

Well, if I do not see people starkly disagreeing I will start
cross-posting.

Yes, make it so.  You might read the article


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(which itself is a crossposting) regarding excessive crossposting
and excessive multi‐posting, though, to see what a well‐behaved crossposting might be.

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:35:35 -0400, Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]>
wrote:

Well, if I do not see people starkly disagreeing I will start
cross-posting.

Use of cross-posting is ok as long as there are not too many groups, and
it's on topic for all included groups.

Agreed. And crossposting is *always* better than multi-posting. Multi-posting is the spammer's tactic; crossposting invites discussion between people who
may not normally interact.

Try to limit it to no more than 3 groups.

A few more *might* be acceptable if there's good reason for posting in 4 or 5 or whatever, but past a certain point, you need to ask yourself, "Do I
*really* need to post this in 12 groups?"

--
When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to
lower me into the ground so they can let me down one last time.

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