03-09-2005, 02:16 AM
I've tried to make my sig image as small as possible (it's less than 1000 bytes) so that it's "dialup friendly."
As far as your "privacy" goes, *any* image, whether it's static or dynamic, sig image or avatar image, gives away your IP to the hosting server. There are plenty of people with avatars hosted on remote servers; all they have to do is look at their server log files and they can see everybody's IP, along with the time and date.
That said, I do think sig images that tell me my IP are pointless. I'd rather see something useful or mildly amusing, like a random quote or what music you're listening to or whatever.
As far as your "privacy" goes, *any* image, whether it's static or dynamic, sig image or avatar image, gives away your IP to the hosting server. There are plenty of people with avatars hosted on remote servers; all they have to do is look at their server log files and they can see everybody's IP, along with the time and date.
That said, I do think sig images that tell me my IP are pointless. I'd rather see something useful or mildly amusing, like a random quote or what music you're listening to or whatever.