Re: Ticked articles cached?

[dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)]

>>>>> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
>> I seem to recall that in the past, ticked articles were
>> automatically cached.

As Kai pointed out, if gnus-use-cache is t then ticked and dormant are
automatically cached except in uncacheable groups (typically mail
groups).  He also points out that this can be customized with
gnus-cache-enter-articles and gnus-cache-remove-articles.  That latter
defaults to (read), which may cause some grief if you use * to cache
articles rather than tick'ing or marking as dormant since the article
will be removed as soon as it's read.  If you're using the cache to
preserve articles beyond a news server's expiration then that is less
than ideal.  I found that out the hard way so I have since gone to
marking as dormant to preserve such articles.  Just in case, though, I
have also set gnus-cache-remove-articles to nil.

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