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 -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
