Originally Posted by
new_skul
Or is it simply to cut down on abuse of the sig space (large pics, nws pics, etc...), without regard to bandwidth usage?
Correct. We're consistently under our bandwidth limit so that was never really an issue.
It's not a matter of our bandwidth, but the users. Not everyone has cable and a giant monitor to be looking at the images some of the people decide to use (you'd be surprised that number of times people use multiple MB images in their sig

). Now it isn't an issue.