Subj : newslink issue
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Sep 09 2025 08:43 pm

 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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