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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: More on birthday information. (RE: Re: BBS Birthdays.)
Message-ID: <2710002@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 06:42:18 GMT
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  I always thought that birthdates, mother's maiden name ad nauseum 
were for verification that a unknown person calling the BBS operator
was who he claimed to be (if someone calls a BBS trying to get my password,
the sysop asks the caller some of these items as a verification).
				Dave Ritchie