sdelmonte | Blocking Images is Hard To Do

As you may recall, I was told at work that community.livejournal.com (which is to say, in my case, the Milliways Bar RPG) uses a lot of bandwidth. Further discussion with a colleague pretty much reveals that our bandwidth is just not keeping up with the needs of a tech-savvy organization but that we just don't have the money to upgrade service. Given the size of the cutbacks here, that's fair enough (if not something I am glad to hear). And I think it's probably fair to say that userpics really do stack up after a while (especially in long RP threads).

So I decided to do my part and work on getting rid of images on as many sites I check at work as possible. At first I tried to block ALL images, and found that if you do that, some sites are unreadable, and that threads on LJ stop getting diagonal (thus getting harder to read). So I changed my approach. I found out from a helpful techie at LJ that you can block the image server (l-userpic.livejournal.com) without affecting other things. And I began to block images from sites where I can live without images.

Only it doesn't quite work. I have told my browser to block images from a number of sites without success. I'm guessing that there are distinct image servers in some cases, and that in others, it's all or nothing. Thus I come to my collective source of data and ask if anyone has any suggestions for getting those pesky images. Any thoughts?