Shared photo stream storage

Hello all,
Quick question. I see that in the description of photo sharing on apples site they say the following.
All your photos on your Mac or PC
Your computer automatically keeps all the photos that come through your Photo Stream.
I am wondering if someone can confirm that this applies to shared photo streams as well. I.e. will all the photos that others share with me be kept on my computer for good?
Thank you for the help

no shared photo streams do not work the same as PhotoStream  --  see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
LN

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