I could now rewrite the article from HTML to enriched I, but since the
backend that I am writing produces article from HTML pages I wanted to
change as little as possible, in order to avoid shooting my feet.

Isn't there a way to tell gnus: When you (gnus) interpret text/html use
the italic face for everything within <I></I> (This is the common
quoting syntax on that message board, which gets its backend now)?.

Arnd

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