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Tony Lam <Tony.Lam+ding@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> I use passive cache to archive messages in the same group in mail and
> news because ticked messages can be expired, at least in newsgroups,
> and I want one consistent operation for both mail and groups. Besides,
> I use tick to mark messages that need to be replied later.

Maybe Gnus should interpret the `cache' mark on mail groups as "do not
expire, even if the rules otherwise say expire", instead of making a
copy of the message?

Hmm...  On the other hand, a cache *might* make sense for the imap
backend