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Tony Lam <Tony.Lam+ding@eng.sun.com> writes:

  > * "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
  > 
  > Rat> Why are you caching mail messages?  There is no sane reason to do
  > Rat> more than 'tick' with `u' so as to prevent articles from being
  > Rat> expired.
  > 
  > 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.

Hm.  With active caching gnus-uncacheable-groups, you can just hit !
or ? on a message, and Gnus will DTRT in both news and mail groups.

You could use ! for messages that you need to work on and ? for
messages that you just want to keep.  (Or, if you don't use
total-expire, you could bite the bullet and acknowledge that news is
different from mail and mark the mails you want to keep as read rather
than dormant ("?").)

kai
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