grabbing msn contact list

[insei]

hi, i didnt know where to post so i'll just post it here.

Is there a way for a website to grab a users msn/hotmail contact list and send email to those users if the user wants to? Like an invite to a web page. Is this hard to achieve? And where would i want to search and look to learn more about this?

regards,
Alexander

[is_numeric]

The only way that you can do this is the user offers up their msn account details and your system logs in and harvests the address book.

Im not sure if this is done by scraping the site or whether Microsoft offers up an API. (I doubt the latter!) I know Linkedin have this functionality but its something I would never use. People would be mental to give up account details like this. Id steer well clear.