To keep from using up your MSN storage in Msg Post pictures, one can use photobucket (.com), imageshack (.us), or other image hosting sites (even your own website, if you have one) out there in cyberspace.
This allows you to reserve your MSN storage for your photo albums, which (as far as I know) need to have the pix uploaded using MSN's "Photo Loader".
Information I have read says MSN does not consider "Hot Linking" to sites that allow linking (or your own site) as "Bandwidth Theft" or "cheating".
I've used Photobucket for years (as may many of you), it allows 1 Gig of storage.
I have noticed that, if using Internet Explorer to post, you must check the "Use Plain Text editor" box (upper Rt. corner) before you paste the HTML Tag in your message for photobucket's link to be "Hot" and automatically fetch the pic from their site & display it in your message. If you also want to use/add "clickable" links, Smilies or other features of "Rich Text" in the post, you'll have to turn the "Plain Text" editor back off after you paste the pix Tag to use them, then back on again if you want to add another pic, and so on.
I mainly use FireFox for my browser & it is always in "Plain Text" mode already...compatibility issues... so, pasting the Tag works with out any changes in FireFox.
I've never used ImageShack, but it seems to be becoming popular on MySpace. They state that they have NO limit on pic storage and allow each image 100 megabytes of transfer per hour, which is a lot of views.
Both sites have good info/instructions on their use.
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