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Doc: Highlight the reason for the rate options existence

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docs/csaf_aggregator.md
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@ -247,3 +247,8 @@ insecure = true
In case you want to provide CSAF advisories from others
that only qualify as CSAF publishers, see
[how to use the `csaf_aggregator` as "CSAF proxy provider"](proxy-provider-for-aggregator.md).
Some providers may limit the rate of requests that may be send to retrieve advisories.
This may cause issues with the aggregator. In this case, the --rate option
can be used to adjust the requests per second send by the each worker of the aggregator to an acceptable rate.
(Which rate is deemed acceptable depends on the provider.)

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@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ The option `timerange` allows to only check advisories from a given time
interval. It can only be given once. See the
[downloader documentation](csaf_downloader.md#timerange-option) for details.
Some providers may limit the rate of requests that may be send to retrieve advisories.
This may cause the checker to be unable to retrieve all advisories. In this case, the --rate option
can be used to adjust the requests per second send by the checker to an acceptable rate.
(Which rate is deemed acceptable depends on the provider.)
You can ignore certain advisories while checking by specifying a list
of regular expressions[^1] to match their URLs by using the `ignorepattern`
option.

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@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ to download more advisories at once. This may improve the overall speed of the d
However, since this also increases the load on the servers, their administrators could
have taken countermeasures to limit this.
For example, some providers may limit the rate of requests that may be send to retrieve advisories.
This may cause the downloader to be unable to retrieve all advisories. In this case, the --rate option
can be used to adjust the requests per second send by the downloader to an acceptable rate.
(Which rate is deemed acceptable depends on the provider.)
If no config file is explictly given the follwing places are searched for a config file:
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