You are mostly right. A caching proxy server is in effect a shared version
of a browser's personal cache. However, using the caching proxy does
not automatically disable your browser's personal cache. Leaving it on
will give you two levels of caching: if your access to your caching
proxy is very good (as it should be with www-cache.socs) this
double-caching would be mostly a waste of disk space.
You can disable Netscape's disk cache by setting its size to 0Kb. Since
it is about 5Mb by default, you'll be saving that much disk space by
relying solely on the caching proxy. If *EVERYONE* did that, it adds up
to a lot of disk space saved on home filesystems.
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