[WikiEN-l] What Readers Say on Inclusion

Tue Oct 4 20:16:54 UTC 2005

Justin Cormack wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:52 -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
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>>Other than that, I don't think there's anything we can't handle. I'd like to
>>see us add the name, address, telephone number, and social security number
>>of every person in the US, for instance.
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>I presume you mean everyone in the world, not the US.
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I don't think that the situation is yet so bad that the US is demanding 
that everyone in the world have a Social Security Number.  This would 
require numbers longer than the present nine digits.  A ten digit number 
may be too metric to be acceptable by the general population of the 
United States. :-)

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