Subj : newslink issue
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Sep 09 2025 20:43:43

  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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