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From: mbr@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: CONOCO requested my SSN to issue a c - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 19:03:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 19:03:27 1984
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fortune!mbr    May  3 15:13:00 1984

When I lived in Mass. you could get a driver's license ID number which was
not your SSN if you knew to ask for it.  The number was prefixed by a letter,
which gave it a different form from the standard SSN.  I got stopped by a cop
for something minor (having a burnt out license plate bulb), and when I showed
him my driver's license, he nearly arrested me for driving with a "forged"
license.  He had never seen one with anything other than the SSN before,
and assumed that mine was phony.  After I explained to him that use of the
SSN was optional, and he radioed back to the station to verify it, he let me go.

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