Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] wrote:

At 03:01 AM 07/21/2003 +0000, Justin wrote:

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So I have seen two separate businesses today who are just shooting

J.A. Terranson (2003-07-20 21:07Z) wrote: themselves

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in the head over the acquisition of data in the face of obvious refusal. .... I'm surprised they didn't ask for your SSN ... as an index for the database...

I've adopted a SSN I use for idiots like that. I don't know whether it's assigned, but it's in the valid range. Isn't that just terrible.

Please don't do that. You might pick a number belonging to some poor working guy and mess up his credit or yours.

I read on the net that Richard Nixon's SSN is 567-68-0515, and then there's that usual 078-thing from fake SSN cards in wallets.

No real SSN starts with the digit 9. Choose a random string, but make the first digit '9'. Peter