[Wikipedia-l] Why external images should not be allowed

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

After all the countries are de-subpaged, I plan to go through and move over all the images.  I have proxomitron, which kills offsite images, and it's killing a lot of those too (I guess they've been uploaded to meta?)

kq

>I'm absolutely in favor of eliminating inline-rendered external
>images.  Totally apart from goatse.cx, it's also a minor security
>issue, since such images can carry cookies and track usage.