XFire,

I have changed your BBS signature so that it no longer points to that large image file. It's a very nice picture, quite well composed, and it's really neat that you even made its background color match the BBS color, but it's a bad idea to include it with every post.

If I had allowed it to stay, it would have made threads hard to read, and made it take a long time for modem-users to load pages with your posts on them.

Linking larger images is allowed on the BBS as long as they are informative, important to the subject at hand, and not part of the signature causing it to be repeated on every message. You can compose a very small image and include it in your profile so that people configured to "view headers on the side" can see it.

On to your question:

Your question is answered in the FAQ. The FAQ directly contradicts Rob R's response. Please click here to read the FAQ entry on this subject, and decide for yourself which piece of advice is more accurate.

It is recommended that new users give the FAQ a good skimming before posting.