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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

  > On Mon, Jan 23 2006, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > 
  > > Is this something new(ish)? I had the impression that by default Gnus
  > > would display by default the text/plain alternative iff a message
  > > contained text/plain and text/html alternatives.
  > 
  > No, there were only documentation additions in 2005.  From vc-annotate
  > (sorry for the long lines):
  > 
  > 5.65         (larsi    04-Dec-99): (defcustom mm-discouraged-alternatives nil
[snip]

Well, then something else is involved here. 
I just tried with Gnus from emacs-21.4 and for that version the
text/plain alternative is shown, for emacs CVS the text/html version
of the same message is shown. For both emacs versions
mm-discouraged-alternatives was not changed from the default.