I am looking for the option that will alow the users to use a avatar that is hosted on another server by allowing them to use ant http://www.... . Currently the only option i a see is to have the avatar uploaded on to the server.  Is this possiable and if so how?

Matthias Schlomann wrote Personally I do not like a feature as your idea.  On a big Forum calling Avatars from a other domain fires up the bandwidth use, and make big Forums slower performance.

Oh, I thought it was the opposite as the avatars are retrieved direct from the offsite by the user's browser, and so bypassing the forum server and not using the forum's bandwidth.  The only downsides of offsite avatars are the possible delay in retrieving the image from the offsite server (thus delaying the fuill page rendering) and the potential lack of control over the images selected.

We have a upload feature as well for the Avatars too.  If we change this to a other server, we can not offer a upload for Avatars in the same feature.  Then we have to create a seperatly ftp upload with the ftp setting to the other server. Personaly I see this not userfriedly.