2009/9/20 Max Bowsher <[email protected]>:
> The obvious followup question, then, is: Why is this treated any
> differently to someone abusively screenscraping information from
> Launchpad webpages?

The only way it's treated any differently is that we can cut a
particular user off if they're abusing the API, whereas we have to
block at the IP level for screen-scrapers, which is a bit of a blunter
tool.

Unless there's something you're referring to that I don't know about, of course.

-- 
Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D

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