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François Pinard <pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> If HTML looks ugly, you perceive it as some kind of a bug, and `K b'
> is a way around that bug.  We are still in the realm of debugging.
> If you could just inform Gnus that W3 rendering does not interest
> you, then Gnus could automatically use the alternative to select
> something you like more.

Yes, but in other circumstances I may want to see the HTML, or
whatever other choices the sender provided.  So I don't perceive
defaulting to HTML as a bug.  If anything is a bug, it's choosing one
alternative and not providing a way to know of existence of others.

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