The FuzzyBlog! has a great bit on killing .doc! Years ago i heard Scott McNealy of Sun outlawed the use of all proprietary file formats after doing a study of Sun's productivity. He found that the files were chewing up massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space compared to their open standard counterparts. i for one cant stand getting files in .doc formats 'cause i don't use Word or Office. You can accomplish anything they do much more efficiently in html, txt, rtf, and xml. No to mention the dangers of embeded viruses and the like that can come in the form of .doc macros. Anyway enough soap box. Look for yourself at .doc and then save as txt and compare. Multiply time the size of then net, and bandwidth scarcity is solved, not to mention all that extra space for mp3s!!! : )