Re: Cache/Agent unification

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Hm.  Maybe there still is a gap though -- cached articles (not
> persistant ones) are kept around (and shown in summary buffers) even
> when they have expired on the server, if `gnus-cache-remove-articles'
> is nil (or something).  But this is probably a bug.  A cache should
> cache things, not change semantics.

Says who?  :-)

It's definitely a feature, and it's a feature that's shared by the
Agent.  Neither the Agent nor the cache cares one whit whether
articles are expired on the server.  They'll keep articles around
until the user makes them go away.

(The same goes with canceled/superseded articles, but that might be
considered a bug.)

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