It's not just old people, many people who aren't techies think that entering an email address into a Telco form means they're ASKING for that email address. I g

It's not just old people, many people who aren't techies think that entering an email address into a Telco form means they're ASKING for that email address. I get multiple emails per day for all sorts of services from all over the world because I was an early Gmail user with a short account name. Most are people signing up to new phone/internet/etc services and they have my name as their first or last name.