> > With the unread setting it puts items in 'uncached' groups into the
> > 'unread' pile which can be small which
> > allows you to expire items in groups that no one reads fairly rapidly.
> >
> > So that pile might not be getting used if you happen to have all your
> > newsgroups set cached.
>
>ok, but on a traditional IHAVE feeded system, aren't all groups set to
>cached anyways? So can I make use of the unread pile at all in an IHAVE
>environment?
>
>As always: thanks :)
>
>Sascha
Yes, cachedall true hides the downloading message, but dnews still remembers
which groups are really cached' (read) and which are not, look at tellnews
status
output and you should see the cached number is much lower than the total
number of groups.
ChrisP.
