I dunno, I fetch roughly 10 per second which isn't a lot. It takes less than an hour to fetch 30 000. If one would do a bit of logic based on pubDate intervals

I dunno, I fetch roughly 10 per second which isn't a lot. It takes less than an hour to fetch 30 000. If one would do a bit of logic based on pubDate intervals and slow the process to 24 hours you could "hammer" a sub set more aggressively and still be fine on a modest desktop.