From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13945 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jonkv@ida.liu.se (Jonas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kvarnstr=F6m?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read? Date: 12 Feb 1998 21:39:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153219 12015 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:33:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25203 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:39:51 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03520 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:38:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAN19024; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:14:17 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:37:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12577 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:37:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12498 invoked by uid 504); 12 Feb 1998 22:37:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12495 invoked from network); 12 Feb 1998 22:37:09 -0000 Original-Received: from samantha.lysator.liu.se (@130.236.254.202) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 1998 22:37:08 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.lysator.liu.se (pool2.lysator.liu.se [130.236.254.137]) by samantha.lysator.liu.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26654 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:36:52 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from jk@localhost) by localhost (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03616; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:40:15 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.23/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13945 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13945 When I read a cached article, should it be deleted from the cache automatically? According to the Gnus manual, when I have an article that I want to "keep and treasure forever", I should make it persistent, so that it "just won't be deleted". Also, according to the Gnus FAQ: > If you tap * on an article, you have made it persistent. Nothing you > ever do, except using the M-* command, will remove it from the cache > where it's stored. > If you mark an article with the E mark, (ie., made it expirable), it > will be deleted by the mail backend when it reaches a certain > age. The persistent copy of the message will not be touched. Since I had read that, I was a bit confused when I marked about a hundred articles in an old mailing list archive as persistent and exited the group, and Gnus told me it was removing the cached articles. I verified that this really happened - the entire cache subdirectory for that group had disappeared. When I read the manual more carefully, I could see that articles are by default removed from the cache when they were read (gnus-cache-remove-articles includes 'read). This seems to contradict the FAQ and the documentation for persistent articles.