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Yes, this is my current pet peeve.

I don't care if a sponsor tells you to hotlink their banners and even provides the pre-built codes to do so, it's dumb. Yes - dumb. When ever you draw something in from another server, you slow you own page load time, especially when you are pulling from a sponsor's high-traffic server. Plus, if their server goes down, your ads are gone. Does that sound smart to you? If you simply can't afford the IMMENSE amount of bandwidth those three little banners are going to burn, I'd suggest you switch to text only or pick up an extra shift delivering pizzas.