Lord how I hate that stuff! It doesn't display properly in a lot of mail readers - in fact, it can hide the actual message! AND it takes much longer to download. that part doesn't bother me at work, but at home I get pretty pissed off to find out that the reason it took 45 minutes to download my e-mail was because someone put in an arsty-fartsy background and a wav for a 12 word message!