Maybe convergence is a bad idea. I use pine as my email reader, so any email sent to me that isn't plain text is annoying to read. Sometimes I think about updating that so I can see all the pretty things that people send to me, but then again, I'm immune to email attachments like this one: "AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs". When I got it, I thought I'd never be able to open it unless I take the .vbs junk off of it, so I open it in a text editor and lo and behold, it's not an actual anything: 'Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly 'commented out for your viewing pleasure 'Function e7iqom5JE4z(hFeiuKrcoj3) 'For I = 1 To Len(hFeiuKrcoj3) Step 2 'StTP1MoJ3ZU= Mid(hFeiuKrcoj3, I, 1) 'WHz23rBqlo7= Mid(hFeiuKrcoj3, I + 1, 1) 'If Asc(StTP1MoJ3ZU) = 15 Then 'StTP1MoJ3ZU= Chr(10) 'ElseIf Asc(StTP1MoJ3ZU) = 16 Then [Snip!] Every time I get one of these, it leaves me thinking that maybe it's not good to have everything read everything else and talk to everything else... HTML in email was probably there because someone decided that everyone should be able to really bold their email instead of *doing this*!!!!!!!, but what is some of this stuff for? AnnaKournikova and the Melissa virus are out there because someone decided that it would be cool if you could open email and remember everyone's address [I was sent the virus by someone I don't know], or if you could open email and have it open a web page, or be able to calculate your taxes for you. The last couple of email viruses infected your browser and read your address book, which is fairly harmless -- there was a time when viruses spread by disks and sharing Word macros and really did quite a bit of damage to the innards of your computer. So will the next couple of viruses do a combination of these things -- email themselves to you and then eat parts of your hard drive? Linked web applications are just the tip of the convergence iceberg, and I keep hearing lots of hype about convergence from people who think I'm recruitable. I mean, yeah, so my computer and TV will interact and all sorts of other cool stuff, but what happens when my TV gets an email virus? Why do I need a smart TV if all I'm doing is drowse while I watch it, or if all my TV does that's more interesting is let me buy things I see on "Friends"? For that matter, why do I need pretty email if only big fancy companies send me pretty email and I delete it anyway?