Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Another Form of ID Message-ID: <231@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 16:04:44 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.231 Posted: Fri Aug 10 16:04:44 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:16:21 EDT References: <146@whuxl.UUCP> <182@pertec.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 15 [chomp, chomp, chom--a large seed! PTUI!!] About three years ago, I had my bicycle registered with the university police. ("So what's this doing in net.audio?", I hear you cry.) They had engraved a number which was linked to the police branch, and another number which tied the article to me. So if the bicycle was ever stolen, it would be traced to SUNY at Buffalo Dept. of Public Safety, where they would look up the second number, and see that it belonged to me. (Whether they would notify me or not is another story.) This system is, in my opinion, far more superior than Social Security numbers or driver's license numbers. It circumvents the problem of someone not having a Social Security card or a driver's license. Jim Poltrone ...{decvax,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!acsgjjp