I've just written a macro that produced a txt file containing nothing other than exactly 1 million "$" characters.

why you ask? well, I'm purely interested to see how many people out there are naive/gullible/tempted enough to acctually show real interest in it (it being my internet-scam scam, if you follow me). How many people could be tempted into clicking a link they shouldn't be clicking by the lure of easy money.

would anybody happen to know how I could link my text file on my website in such a way that I get a record of the number of times the link is clicked (maybe recording the cumulative number of times in a text file on the webserver or something, so that I can look at the file from my browser, or maybe just like the "downloaded "x" times" on the attachments on Techspot)

From whom else but me: have a look here (halfway down):
http://www.skaro.net/unicounter/

indeed, who else?:D

Thankyou very much RBS. It's very much appreciated.