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[Lee Harr]

In article <m3r85nmoch.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam at and-zip-does-too.com.au> writes:
> 
> [In response to Alan Kennedy claiming that HTML is the most widely
> used [electronic] document format in human history?]
>> It isn't.  That award would go to 7-bit ASCII plain text.
>> 
>> Facetious?  No.
> 
> Do you have numbers to prove that? Looking at my disk:
> 
> martin at mira:~> locate .html|wc
>   41104   41104 2425699
> martin at mira:~> locate .txt|wc
>    7958    7963  389013
> 
> So I do have way more .html files than .txt files. I haven't counted
> source code files, here, obviously, but I'm not sure whether those
> would qualify as '7-bit ASCII plain text'.
> 

How about email?