Here's my thoughts on the issue.
You can post photo files in various formats using the img tags. Any other files can be posted by posting them on a host of your choice and using the http tag. I can't speak for the security issue, but I would see it as a bandwidth issue too. If people posted large files on the forums it might slow the whole place down.
Incidently the "official" jewel forum allows posting of files directly as attachments. Trouble is there is a very severe size limit that makes it impractical. I tried it once, but it was trial an error to drop the file size unitl it was small enough. I think the largest I was able to post was about 17k. Which is about the size of a thumbnail photo.
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Mike
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