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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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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