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Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu> writes:

>   dak> Of course articles don't remain longer than the server stores them.
>
> Yes, this I know.

Apparently not.

>   dak> If you want to cache them locally, use *
>
> Hmmm ... I've been using `!' for *years*, and articles have been
> "cached".

Then you have used a server with long article store previously.

> Though I might be using the wrong terminology, the effect upon
> returning to a group was I still had access to the '!'ed articles.

Luck.

> I never used `*' ... don't understand this ...
>
>   dak> * runs the command gnus-cache-enter-article
>   dak>    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-cache'.
>
> That's pretty clear.
>
>
> Maybe there's some command (that's gone from my ".gnus.el") that also
> allowed `!' to do the same thing as `*'?

Both are orthogonal.  * determines where the article is stored, !
determines how it is shown in the list.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum