>>>>> Michael wrote:

> On  6 Sep 2007, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

[...]

Perform `M-x mml-quote-region' on the message if there are things
that look like MML tags (e.g. `<#multipart type=digest>') but
should be sent as is.  It cannot be automated.

> I was hoping some automatic way of doing this.  If not at the time of
> composing the buffer, perhaps a function to delete it afterward.  The HTML
> code can be quite long (i.e., from Outlook) and is nauseous to even look at.

I see.  But there is no such ready-made function AFAIK.  Try the
following (put it in your ~/.gnus.el file):