Okay, there's this other message board place and the owner has disallowed people to use the [img] tag because he says images use up too much bandwidth. However, he never allowed uploads, so the only way one could use the [img] tag would be to link it to files on others servers.

I told him that this would use up the other servers bandwidth, and would have no effect on his, since his server would just send the HTML to the browser and the browser would then request the images from the server (whever it may be).

This isn't a computer message board, so it's not like there's a bunch of computer science people running around.

All the members (and the owner) ganged up on me calling me wrong and stupid, and threatened to ban me because I questioned the rules.

So what I want to know is, am I wrong? Is this how it works?