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@Shoosh
This is an interesting discussion. Here is another side. I have a cat that comes in all the time. It is a neighbours cat and it forces it's way through the magnetic cat flap. He is very good friends with my cat, (they even have the same name).
I spoke to his owner and chased it out for years until I found out she had a Rottweiler. Because all he was doing was coming in, sitting at the top of the stairs quietly and then going after an hour.
He since comes in and eats all my Sam's expensive dental diet food. I am essentially feeding two cats. My cat is not the slightest bit bothered about him (unless he comes in my bedroom) although sometimes he does chase him out in play.
However for the past year or so I haven't chased him since I found out her husband has cancer and they might be moving away (we had a conversation about 'I'm not sure what to do about the cat'). She has at least one other cat too, who I do chase out all the time.
I'm getting a chip cat flap fitted this week once the front door has been repainted and I'm in a dilemma whether to let her cat in or not. He has been coming in for 7'years... And I spoke to her last year to let her know what I was doing and ask if he was chipped, and she seemed okay with it all. If she had asked me to chase him out all the time then I would. Sam too is her cat, not mine. I'm just concerned how distressed he would be after being locked out of here after all these years.
I also have a neighbour who admitted to feeding my Sam and I told her please not to because he has had cancer and is on a special diet (true). I know you think you are doing a good thing but then you don't have to listen to him vomiting or clear up all the cat sick or cover the vet bills/insurance.
Probably rambling too much here. Sorry. ;)