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    From MRO@BBSESINF to All on Tue Sep 9 21:11:42 2025
    so i setup newsgroups on my system again and i dont have that many that i'm polling. but i am getting this error that is tying up everything for a very very very very long time.

    Retrieving article: 77579
    !Too many newsgroups (8): alt.atheism,alt.atheism.satire,alt.bbs.synchronet,alt.

    bestjobsusa.computer.jobs,alt.bible,alt.bible.prophecy,alt.binaries.boneless,a lt
    .binaries.cbe
    Retrieving article: 77580


    is this because the article is crossposted to so many newsgroups?
    this is really slowing down importing.

    thanks.
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  • From Digital Man to MRO on Tue Sep 9 20:43:43 2025
    Re: newslink issue
    By: MRO to All on Tue Sep 09 2025 09:11 pm

    so i setup newsgroups on my system again and i dont have that many that i'm polling. but i am getting this error that is tying up everything for a very very very very long time.

    Retrieving article: 77579
    !Too many newsgroups (8): alt.atheism,alt.atheism.satire,alt.bbs.synchronet,alt. bestjobsusa.computer.jobs,alt.bible,alt.bible.prophecy,alt.binaries.boneless ,a lt
    .binaries.cbe

    That messed is skipped (not downloaded) because it was crossposted to many groups (so likely SPAM). That threshold is configurable (max_newsgroups_per_article), default is 5.

    Retrieving article: 77580


    is this because the article is crossposted to so many newsgroups?
    this is really slowing down importing.

    I don't think the skipping of articles slows anything down. More likely, you're just downloading a lot of articles or a lot of big articles. You can reducing the yield interval and length of newslink sacrificing some CPU utilization for faster downloads - "lines_per_yield" and "yield_length" - set 'em both to 0.
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