Thank you all for your kind suggestions. It is appreciated. I do have my photos on a hosted paid site specifically for that purpose. As to who owns and operates the forum,someone pays for the space and someone administers the site and makes the regulations it doesn't just happen by some accident and I for one appreciate these people for doing this and making it available for us to enjoy. While I don't consider myself in any way proficient on the net or with PC's I am familiar with computers having spent the biggest part of 30+ years in the business of programming and operating everything in the second and third generation of computers. I don't now nor have I ever understood the reason to make something more difficult than necessary. I must not be the only one who is confused by this operation as this is the singular operation that I hear people complain about on all the Forums I participate in. If it wern't so confusing there would not be the necessity for sites like Photobucket existing for the singular purpose to host and distribute pictures.