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by riffic 6202 days ago
Not really, they aren't assuming you use the same password as your mail provider. These sorts of sites just ASK you outright for your login/password.. and a lot of users actually give this up voluntarily to a third party site.

Lots of information here on this sort of anti-pattern:

http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-anti-patterns