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Sherilyn <sherilyn@suespammers.org> writes:

> It should be quite easy to write a simple-minded wash option that just
> replaces anything in angle brackets with a space and wraps any
> resulting long lines. [..] Or you could pipe it through an external
> program like Michael Haardt's dehtml utility using (shell-command).

I think Oort Gnus includes something similar:

;;; html2text.el --- a simple html to plain text converter

;; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Joakim Hove <hove@phys.ntnu.no>

;;; Commentary:

;; These functions provide a simple way to wash/clean html infected
;; mails.  Definitely do not work in all cases, but some improvement
;; in readability is generally obtained. Formatting is only done in
;; the buffer, so the next time you enter the article it will be
;; "re-htmlized".
;;
;; The main function is "html2text"