Also, your old posts only need to display the images when someone clicks on the thread. The older it gets, the fewer times that happens.
Reducing your image sizes is really not that hard and can be done with many free downloadeble programs. There is no reason for anyone to post huge pictures. In most programs you can find an "image size" option. Change it to about 450 wide and then save as a JPG.
This would make a huge difference. If everyone did that maybe we wouldn't have to worry about adding a small picture here and there. It is nicer to not have to click again.
I have a dialup and generally the text loads first and then the images. So I just start reading first and when I am done I look at the images. Still, smaller images load real fast.
