You're right in that the topic itself can be boring.

OTOH, it has spawned some thoughts off on their own... the big one that got me thinking was longevity. Vitronix inadvertantly sparked it in one of his posts by mentioning the time and digital art in an unrelated manner.

So how exactly does one preserve digital art for the long haul? Artists of old never had this problem... marble and oil paintings, if carefully tended to, can last for centuries. Not so IMHO with digital art. 

As a sysadmin, I already see what a mere 10 years can do to files created awhile back. Hard disks fail. Magnetic media decays. CD/DVD-ROMs fade into unreadability. Proprietary file formats become lost and/or mis-read by future file readers.

Fortunately, Poser and non-binary D|S files are text/ASCII, so reconstruction can be done with enough time and effort. OTOH, what of the compressed/binary formats? 

Something to definitely think about as time passes...