I was intrigued by the title, and read the first paragraph quickly - too quickly! I thought I read:

"I ran into an old friend: the DOS LISTING destination."

Now THAT would have been an interesting post! (and a really old friend!)

Still an interesting observation, though. Myself, I prefer a PDF target (used in EG), so that I can export out to something mail-able (I do mostly quick and dirty summaries, or point out dataset anomalies).