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Old 25-08-2013, 11:09 AM
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iceman (Mike)
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There were a couple of reasons:

1. Hotlinking can use other sites bandwidth when they don't want it
2. Downloads the image (sometimes very large images) in people's browsers without them wanting it or getting a choice about it
3. Screws up the forum layout with large wide images etc.

Attachments are fine, otherwise linking to the image directly, giving people a choice, is fine.
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