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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>> The idea sounds good to me.  But I'd like to think Agent as the
>> second level cache instead of Agent/Cache unification.  Cache and
>> Agent is for different purposes.
>
> Which different purposes?

The cache already conflates two separate functions -- persistent
articles and, er, the cache.  I think that Simon is right in that the
second of these functions should be conflated with the Agent instead.

So instead of making the present cache do all these things, I think
the caching behavior should perhaps be moved to the Agent instead, and
integrate the Agent more closely with the rest of Gnus.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen