jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> You know, sometimes
>   X-Spam-Report:
> 	*  0.7 MPART_ALT_DIFF BODY: HTML and text parts are different
>
> Indeed sometimes there is that part, but nothing much in it:
>
> --=_NextPart_2rfkindysadvnqw3nerasdf
> Content-Type: text/DOESN'T MATTER
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>
>
> --=_NextPart_2rfkindysadvnqw3nerasdf

This mail is defective; I score it even higher.

> In such cases, could gnus please just show the other part,
> I.e., eliminate the empty part as one of the candidates before further
> weeding out mm-discouraged-alternatives. Thanks.

But yes, that makes sense.  If it does show the html part when text was
requested via discouraged-alternatives, I think it makes sense to add

X-Gnus-Warning: suppressing empty text/plain part

so the reader knows the mail was bogus.