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Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:

> > What on earth should one do?  Should there be a test for multipart/*
> > to see whether (after iterating over the arbitrarily complex tree)
> > Gnus really can display it after all?
> 
> Why not?  Lisp is good at recursion, after all.

Yes, but I'm having difficulty envisioning the predicate function
here.  What are the rules we are after, really?

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