I'm having a problem with gnus when I'm getting rss feeds in that while
gnus is querying the site, everything in emacs pauses and is unusable.
Is it possible for there to be a timeout of say 20 seconds, and then it
moves on to the next site?

ATM, I have 42 feeds which are showing "*:" as one feed didn't respond,
for whatever reason, and it has caused all of them to show that they
couldn't read their feed.

Thanks
Sharon
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