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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > Default to a particular preference, sure; even default to not
> > showing a selector for other alternatives; but please don't deny
> > the ability even to learn that alternatives are available, or to
> > choose those alternatives on the fly as we examine a given
> > message, for those of us who want that ability.
> 
> This is Gnus; of course we can have both jam and hunny.  (Hold the
> bread.)  `gnus-unbuttonized-mime-types' is the variable to fiddle
> with.

Yes, but it would be nicer if Gnus had sane defaults.  When
introducing a new victim to Gnus, I hate twiddling with their
variables to avoid them coming to me and asking questions.

An example of bad defaults that was recently corrected was the
infamous default value of `gnus-read-active-file'.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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