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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> If the cache also contain persistent articles we'll have a problem
> when people want to backup the cache directory (to have backups of
> server-expired articles) but not their agent directory.

Well, unifying the persistent articles and the agent is not a good
idea, I think.  And I don't think people really want to back up the
cached articles.  (As opposed to the persistent articles.) 

> But I'm not sure what the usage pattern is here.  Maybe it's enough to
> separate persistent articles into a directory that people can backup.

I think so.

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