Darren New wrote:
> I got mine in high 
> school, and that only because I was offered to have the school handle 
> delivering the paperwork. Otherwise, I probably would have waited until 
> I was out of college or otherwise needed the number.

I'm the youngest of six kids, and we all got ours at exactly the same 
time.  That's just how they did it.

Nowadays, it's like your SSN is *your* number.  Not a very good system, 
but it (mostly) works.

...Chambers

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Chambers wrote:
> Just a quirk of terminology, then, because I consider "sequentially 
> within batches" to be mostly equivalent to "sequentially" ;)

Right. But the interesting stuff you find out (like where they were born, 
etc) is based on what batch they're in, which you couldn't do if they were 
globally sequential.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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