Deleting Podcast Entries - A missing feature

I understand that you can delete a podcast entry. However I hate the way it permenantly masks the entry, so there is no way to download it again, other than removing the complete podcast and re-subscribing.
A problem with this method arises when you have a whole bunch of episodes in a podcast already downloaded.. When you remove the podcast but keep the files intact, iTunes just ignores them when you re-subscribe and everything is greyed out. Clicking "get" at this point just makes iTunes download a duplicate file.
A feature that is really missing from iTunes is the ablity to "unmask" the deleted episodes. So they can be re-downloaded. It's not really iTunes' fault per-se. Pretty much every rss reader and podcasting application does it the exact same way, but it really needs to change, and I'd love to see iTunes lead the way.
Maybe the "get" button to the right of the entry could change to a "remove" button. When pressed, the actual file would be removed, but the entry would remain intact and the button would change back to "get".
I don't know exactly. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants this feature badly. I'm running out of diskspace keeping every podcast on my machine, but I don't want to delete them from iTunes, incase I want to download them again. I've resorted to just deleting the file from my computer and ignoring the "!" error beside the file.

Have you tried this support link with your statement?:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/podcast/
I'm still new to iTunes Podcast & submitted my own question to this URL (filled in boxes at the bottom) & hope they answer me back within the 72 hrs. they mentioned. You can view me 'Just Phil' as author from a few days ago when a user helped me out of another problem. I think my original question is still on the 1st page of this Forum.
May your request fall on ears that can do something about the issue you have described.

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