Strip HTML out of reply?

I googled, I checked the FAQ - must not be searching on the right terms.

When responding (and quoting/including) the original note in a reply I want to 
strip the HTML part of the original note. I only want to include the text 
version of the original note. How do I accomplish this?

As an aside, because I couldn't figure out how to not quote the HTML portion, 
I gave Thunderbird and Evolution a try (for a day or two). I sure missed 
several features of exmh so I'm back:

* On the fly spell checking - WITH SPELLING hints at the bottom of the sedit 
  window.
* Colorized quoting (> is a diff color than >> and so on)
* emacs style editing - may hands tend to be on my keyboard when writing 
  email, I don't want to mouse over to where I want the cursor.
* folder management just seems easier in exmh - "m" to move msg to my current
  move folder.
* using mh commands (scan) to quickly check email without having to start a 
  GUI app.
* If a note doesn't have a subject - or short subject, I get to see the start 
  of the message - didn't realize how much I use this.

I did enjoy the ability to quickly resize/zoom a message in thunderbird.
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Tim Jedlicka, [email protected], 1-630-713-4436, AOL-IM=tjbonzo
Network Entomologist, Lucent Technologies, LWS NOVE/SLRnet Lab Operations