Re: prefer text/plain alternative over text/html

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> >>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
> 
> Randal> [ ... ]
>
> Randal> GNUS appears to prefer showing the text/html to the text/plain
> Randal> alternative.  Consistently even, which makes me think there's some
> Randal> bias code in there, but I couldn't find it.  How do I make it work the
> Randal> other way?
> 
> Bleh... Nevermind... 45 seconds after I posted, I figured out to grep
> for text/html in the *.el files, and found it, and now my:
> 
>     mm-discouraged-alternatives's value is 
>     ("text/html" "text/richtext")
> 

This brings up a related question of my own:

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.  I've been rather regularly
doing downloads from the CVS archive, the last one being this morning
(12/2/99), and it appears as if perhaps something might have changed
there within the past week or so which causes this to be overridden.

Is that possible?

Also, could someone point me to something which could tell me what
sorts of other settings might cause `mm-discouraged-alternatives' to
be either ignored or overridden?  Maybe something else I'm doing in my
.gnus.el would be interacting with some new Gnus behavior to cause
this variable to apparently be ignored or overridden.

Thanks in advance.


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