Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?

[Enrico Schumann]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Adam Sjøgren writes:

> 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

When 'gnus-use-cache' is t, ticking (!) will also copy the
article to the cache. See http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_42.html .

Kind regards
     Enrico

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