The Gnus Agent doesn't seem to work like most other offline newsreaders. Here are some common questions that some imaginary people may ask:
gnus-agent-cache
is `nil'.
In short, when Gnus is unplugged, it only looks into the locally stored articles; when it's plugged, it only talks to your ISP and also uses the locally stored articles.
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