Doug, why the heck do you need to cart around four images (one avatar and at least three bumper stickers) in every post? Who besides you wants to scroll down for (or even load for that matter) all of that? Just how many bytes do you want people to put up with just so that they can READ a post? You have about 42 kb just right now. Would you only be content if you forced me to load over a hundred just to read LOL or somethin'?
I don't think the avatar limit is small at all. Firstly, who needs to navigate through posts with huge 250 x 250 avatars? Not only will they likely be big in size, but in bytes. I have a dial-up. I'm not up for loading everybody's huge-ass 250 x 300 avatar as I try to navigate a thread, or going through huge signatures for that matter. And even if you negotiated me on pixel size, you wouldn't get me on the bytes. I'd still force you to reduce. And it can be done.
Hey, even I pushed avatar size back in the day when I first started using boards and went to the Ass-spank. I knew next to nothing on resizing and had a huge avatar despite it displaying at only 150 x 150. Since being educated on what I was doing, I've always been mindful of resizing these days. Most avatars CAN be adequately resized. I use 20/20 by Light to do it, but if you need an online thing, I can't recommend this thing enough:
http://www.netmechanic.com/GIFBot/optimize-graphic.htm(For the e-mail part, just put in an old e-mail you don't use anymore. They probably just spam you or something but you don't have to chell it for anything so that's why I suggest an old one.) Also, if you need something resized you could probably ask me about it and I'd do it for you. And that offer goes for anyone.
But come on, this isn't a gallery. Don't you think it's being a little unreasonable wanting to subject my poor dial-up to more data than you already have? Looking at what you have...

...the only difference between what you're using and what I posted is 27 kb. And you want me to give you more when you can't resize what you have? :huh: