The following code can be used to strip out all HTML tags in a string, 
in order to display an html-formatted entry as plain text.

Dim strInput, strOutput, objRegEx
strInput ="This is a bunch of text in <b>BOLD</b>, <i>Italic</i>, <br> yadayaya...<br><br>"
Response.write("<b>HTML TEXT TO BE CLEANED:</b><br>")
Response.write(strInput)
Set objRegEx = New RegExp
objRegEx.Pattern = "<[^>]*>"
objRegEx.Global = true
strOutput = objRegEx.Replace(strInput, "")
Response.write("<b>CLEANED UP TEXT:</b><br>")
Response.write(strOutput)