I'm not trying to be confrintational, so don't be offended.
I think the point is that there are rules on the site. It's an issue of consideration towards the owners and users of the Bolt, regardless of the issue of bandwidth.
I would have no idea how to even host my own website and I'm sure there are alot of others here in the same boat, so if we all posted pics by copy and paste from "my pictures" PROBLEMS, Correct? What your saying is your web site hosts the pictures and that dosen't use the bolts bandwidth.Correct? I don't know if thats the case or not, but dont you think if no one followed the rules of the site a lot of people would include pictures the wrong way.(whether they realized it or not ) Thats the real issue. The pictures are great, Nice welding and cool that your sharing the expierence. It will probably help someone who is having a hard time with the same project, but isn't there a gallery for pictures?