How? Send Same Email As HTML *or* Plain Text

I'm looking for a simple way to do the following:

We have a database that serves-up content to a website. Some of those items
are events, some are news articles. They're stored in the DB as formatted
HTML so ASP just drops them right into a page shell.

Now, we want to send out a newsletter email containing some of those items.
No problem sending as HTML. However, some of the members want just plain
text. Is there some magic method in CDO that can automatically convert HTML
to plain text? Or, is there some existing VBScript code out there that can
do this?

BTW, the environment is IIS 5.x (Windows 2000), Classic ASP, and CDO.