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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for students -- antisocial insecurity numbers
Message-ID: <2219@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 12:35:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cxsea.2219
Posted: Tue Oct  6 12:35:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 01:45:34 EDT
References: <2138@utastro.UUCP> <607@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <3054@hoptoad.uucp> <314@lamc.UUCP> <3126@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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In article <3126@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
|dhawk@lamc.UUCP (David Hawkins) wrote:
|> I would imagine they want your SS# so they can keep a record of who
|> buys a copy at the discount.  You wouldn't want the same people 
|> buying copies over and over, would you?  And according to this
|> SS publication it is legal for them to ask for it...
|But of course they have no way to verify it, since they don't have
|access to your Social Security record, so you can just give them any
|old number, and buy as many copies as you want.

An interesting story:  A few years ago I was in a bowling league.  When in a
league, you have to buy an ABC (American Bowling Congress, or some such high
falutin' name) card.  On the application, there's a spot for the SSN.  I
refused to put mine down, but when I got my official card a couple of months
later, it had my correct SSN printed on it anyways.  Sigh.

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