Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Sivaram writes:

> Right, what's the difference between * and ! then?  I was told to use
> * a few years back.  I believe I mentioned that I wanted to keep the
> article around indefinitely

* stores a copy of the article on your local machine (article caching).
! makes the article show in the group, even though it is read (ticking).

See: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_37.html

So if you are reading articles on a news server with a short retention
time, you probably want to use both.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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