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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

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> * Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>  on Thu, 02 Dec 1999
> | I have this exact setting.  For a while, it seemed to actually discourage
> | the display of text/html, but recently (probably within the past week or
> | two, but I'm not sure), I started seeing lots of text/html rendering
> | again, irrespective of this `mm-discouraged-alternatives' setting.
> 
> This happens when there is no text/plain part (which is broken, but that is 
> a separate issue).

Hmmmm ... Well, I guess it might just be a coincidence, then, that
lately I've been seeing more text/html stuff coming to me without any
text/plain part.

Which brings up another question: does anyone know of an existing
elisp utility (maybe even something in Gnus!) which would do a
quick-and-dirty-but-marginally-acceptable job of removing HTML markup
tags?

Thanks again in advance.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com