Should Hotmail Block Screen Scrapers?Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life

Paul Buchheit, creator of
Gmail now the founder of FriendFeed, has a
blog post entitled Should
Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?
where he writes

Apparently Facebook
will ban you
(or at least Robert Scoble) whether you attempt to extract your friend’s
newsletter addresses from the service. Automated access is a difficult

issue for any web
service, so I won’t argue with their decision — it’s their service and they own you.
However, when I signed up for Facebook I gave them my Gmail address and password,
using their find
friends
feature:


So the question is, should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook (or close the
accounts of anyone who uses Facebook’s […]

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