In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If Google wants to write legal > contracts that won't stand up in court (speaking as somebody who isn't a > lawyer and whose legal advice is worthless), they can.
What they define as their terms of service doesn't have to stand up in court. They're not a public service, after all. If you do something that they don't like, they are free to try to block you from their servers, they don't need to appeal to any other authority. wget --user-agent="I'm not Microsoft Internet Explorer, I'm Wget" -O - \ http://www.google.co.nz/search\?q=test -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list