jonkv@ida.liu.se (Jonas Kvarnström) writes:

> 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.

This might mean that you've changed `gnus-use-cache' from the default
`passive' to t (or something).  The cache (when it is not passive) is
very, uh, active.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen