An #airport just required me to give them an email in order to use their wifi, and I entered "user@0.0.0.0". We'll see how that goes for them....
The TOS had said they could use the email for marketing :/
(Yes, I thought about doing something along the lines of "root@localhost", but I was nice to them instead :) )
@ossobuffo Huh, that's interesting. I didn't know about uce@ftc.gov.
@golemwire I doubt it has been in use for the last 25 years, probably longer.
@ossobuffo Yeah, I searched the FTC site and, at a glance, it doesn't look like they've said anything about it in the past 20 years.
https://search.ftc.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=ftc_prod&query=uce%40ftc.gov&commit=Search
@golemwire It’s a relic of more innocent times, long before spambots, when people who paid for internet access by the kilobyte were upset that they were having to pay for unsolicited ads.
@golemwire I always like using 'uce@ftc.gov'. The FTC used to actually monitor that one for a while in the 90s — you'd forward them Unsolicited Commercial Email aka spam and they'd (theoretically) take action.