I vehemently disagree with the idea of disabling displaying images in PMs. I do agree with the idea of getting rid of #a, etc. though.
Having HTML and allowing images to be displayed opens up so much customization in PMs for players. I see players using it all the time to advertise items they're selling on Era and other servers by showing the item's icon and stuff.
Players could possibly have the
option to disable the <img> tag linking to external sources maybe (that would mean if you tried to display an image that exists on the server it would still work, so players could link to item icons, etc), but leave HTML alone.
I
do not want to see images being removed from PMs though.