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From: rab@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect for students
Message-ID: <4032@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 03:33:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.4032
Posted: Fri Sep 25 03:33:52 1987
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Reply-To: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford)
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In article <3054@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
+ ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) wrote:
+ > According to the form, "Qualifying teachers, as well as college, university,
+ > and other post-secondary students, can now purchase WordPerfect
+ > Corporation (WPCORP) software directly from WPCORP at reduced price.
+ >        ...You apparently need:
+ > (3) Your social security number.
+ 
+ What!?!  A computer software company requesting your social security 
+ number so you can buy a program from them?
+ 
+ Let me guess, are they going to pay you retirement benefits?
+ Are they going to charge you Federal income taxes?
+ 
+ Then what in hell are they doing asking you for your social security number?
+ 
+ >                  --- Call them up --- The phone number given on the form
+ > is 801-225-5000.
+ 
+ I recommend that people interested in privacy protection call them
+ and flame them for this.  (You get a useless recording outside business
+ hours -- I just tried it.)

 Info for your enlightenment:  It is *illegal* for anybody to require your
social security number as identification or in order to do business with
you.  There is a special exception for the Infernal Revenue Service; as
usual, they can get away with anything.  But nobody else may require it.
Thought you might like to know.
 
-- 
  Robert Bickford                 {hplabs, ucbvax, lll-lcc, ptsfa}!well!rab
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