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From: jaa@su19a.ess.harris.com (John Auer)
Subject: Re: Uses of sigs
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:47:25 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne  FL

PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu () writes:
: Man, do I feel naive.  I always signed my e-mail and postings with a sig.
: file that included my postal address, a post office box that I never
: received junk mail in because I never used it for other than business
: purposes.  Anything I order I have sent to the house.
: 
: So this week I get a postcard from an anonymous "Usenet Pal." The message
: said, "Include your address in your .signature...get a free postcard!"
: 
: Gee.  Wow.  It wasn't even a pretty postcard, and I can imagine I'll get
: lots of other freebies--all junk.

Posting a snail mail address is definately a bad idea.  If you
ever get in a flame war with some small minded person, they
just might see to it that you get subscriptions to a dozen
or so magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc, etc).  The hassel of
getting yourself unsubscribed is a pain; plus, now your
name is on their mailing lists.  Let the junk mail begin.

On the other hand, you get a bunch of free magazines until
they finally cancel the subscription ;-)

I've read posts from people warning about this flame tactic.

John

: Paula
: 
: -- Paula Ford | Internet: pxf3@psuvm.psu.edu | "Snaefridh"
:  Den som har droemt Udfaerd og Daad senker ej Sejl uden med Sorg,
:                                                       -- Bjoernson
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: SSN & college job searching
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:36:42 GMT

In article <C1J6oG.2uv@andy.bgsu.edu> jdraper@andy.bgsu.edu (johanna draper) writes:
>I would like some advice on a Social Security number issue. Today I went 
>to my campus job counseling office to find out the registration procedure
>for on-campus interviews. Turns out you have to buy a certain software
>package to produce your data sheet/resume. Well, ok, fine, I ask to buy
>it, but they want to write my SSN on the disk. (They print your resume

	(I'd balk at buying a specific package, too, but thats just
me.) 

>Only later did I realize that because I wouldn't give them my SSN were
>they denying me access to any on-campus interviews, referrals through
>their department, and so forth - the only things that they could do that
>I couldn't set up myself. I don't really know what I can do about this.
>I'm not going to have my SSN on every resume/data sheet they send outon
>me, but I'm having a hard time realizing that this is how far bureaucracy
>has gone, at least at this midwestern state school. 

	A state school?  You should have said so earlier.  Ask for a
Privacy Act statement.  Since they're a part of the government, they
need to be able to provide one.  If they can't, get a copy of the
Privacy Act, and wave it under the nose of the manager responsible for
the counseling office.  If he doesn't change the policy, leave.  Go to
the schools legal department, and ask their opinion.  Then call the
Attorney General, and ask him for advice.

	If they can provide a Privacy Act statement, check and see
that it is accurate.  You might also choose to provide a false SSN,
such as 078-05-1120, which is the number mentioned in the FAQ.

	Remember to be polite at all times when dealing with these
people, and take notes of who you talk to, when, and what they said.
You might also want to call the school paper, and get them to do a
write-up of people screwed by their SSN being made available to
criminals.  The SSN FAQ in this group is also a useful thing to give
to a reporter, as background.

	Good luck, and let us know what happens.

Adam


Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu

"If we had a budget big enough for drugs and sexual favors, we sure
wouldn't waste them on members of Congress..."   -John Perry Barlow
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From: savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,ca.driving,misc.consumers,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Am I being sleazed by this insurance company?
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:36:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: watts.sqa.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan26.220455.15604@cs.ucla.edu>, coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman) writes:
> I applied for auto insurance yesterday and I'm trying to decide whether I've
> been sleazed.  I share an apartment with two women not otherwise related to me
> (i.e., they're basically strangers).  The insurance company informed me that
> if I didn't put them on my policy, they would exclude all coverage for them as
> drivers on the vehicle.  I'm not thrilled with this, but I agreed to do this
> since I have no intention of letting either of the women drive the vehicle.
> 
> Now for the sleazy part.  Even though they are excluded, the insurance company
> wanted to have their driver's license numbers.  The agent said something about
> the company wanting these because they are of the opposite sex.  Apparently
> what is being insinuated is that because I'm male and they are female, I'm
> more likely to defraud the company by allowing my roommates to drive and
> claiming I was at the wheel if an accident occurs.
> 
> I don't feel that this information is any of the company's business (given the
> ironclad exclusion I signed), nor any of mine for that matter.  At this point,
> I'm telling the company I won't give them the license numbers.
> 
> Is the insurance company's behavior improper?  Illegal?  Would all companies
> ask for this, or did I just find a dud?
> 
> Mike


Nope.  It's not a dud. Here in MA, if you are living with
someone who is not  a family member, you have to list 
them on your insurance if they are going to be driving your
car.  If you don't and get into and accident, then you are
completely responsible.  The insurance company will not 
even go to bat for you.  For instance, even if roomate #1
takes the car 200 yards down the road and gets into an 
accident, your car would be uninsured for her unless she
is listed.   Asking for the driver's license numbers is 
not that unusual, but they don't absolutely need it.  It
doesn't hurt to give it, all they want it for is to do 
checks on the other drivers and in case something does
happen.  What you should be careful of (and this has 
happened to me) is getting sur-charged for something they
did (like getting a speeding ticket) on your insurance.


-- 
==========================================================
Rick Savoia                     | "I'm just very selective
savoia@watts.sqa.stratus.com    | about the reality 
Rick_Savoia@vos.stratus.com     | I accept" - Calvin
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From: volpe@bart.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:19:27 GMT
Reply-To: volpe@ausable.crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development

In article <1993Jan22.205040.7077@webo.dg.com>, don@muff.webo.dg.com (Don Perkins) writes:
|> In article <93020.095246MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>, David B. Horvath, CDP <MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
|> |> I saw the included ad in Computerworld January 18, 1993, page
|> |> 85 - the Computer Careers section.  They want your SSN before
|> |> they even talk to you.  What for?
|> |> 
|> 
|> They will use the SSN to run a credit check on the applicants.

When I took out a car loan, and also when I moved into my apartment, I 
had to sign forms allowing the credit reporting agency to release
this info to the lending institution and apartment complex, respectively.
Can the prospective employer run such a credit check without your signing 
a similar form?

|> 
|> They will use the result of the credit check as a basis for determining
|> the 'character' of the applicant.
|> 
|> --
|> Don P.

-- 
==================
Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com
From: cjeffrie@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Steve Perry
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:58:08 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Can anyone tell me what is going on with Steve Perry? I heard
he had throat cancer but I also heard he was working on an
album.

Carol Jeffries
cjeffrie@ukanvm.bitnet


Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: zodiac@next02csc.wam.umd.edu (Ken Lambert)
Subject: Re: YES? please
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:35:09 GMT

> 
>                   I have recently slowly but surely become a large YES
> fan...it has come to the point where whatever they play sounds good.  I
> was incredibly impressed by UNION, their last CD.  So impressed, in
> fact, that I'd like to hear MORE.  What the hell are they up to
> now...will they have another album...they didn't break up AGAIN did
> they?  I sure as hell hope not because their new stuff is quite
> impressive...help me out!

I heard the Steve and Rick have left, but I am not sure if this is true. I  
did see Steve with Asia on tour. I heard a new album is due in April

ALBUMS TO GET
-------------
(almost all, but here are some favorites)
Close to the Edge 
Time and a Word
Fragile
Drama (w/o Jon but a GREAT album)

Ken
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: madman@austin.ibm.com (Steve Heracleous)
Subject: Re: Black Betty
Originator: madman@suave.austin.ibm.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:43:48 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


My understanding is that Ram Jam did only one song....never released an album....

Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: lewis@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Lewis Beard)
Subject: Re: Santana/Gregg Rolie
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:04:18 GMT

Both Carlos and Gregg are on these santana albums:
Santana (1st album)
Abraxas
Santana (3rd album)
Caravanserai

also Gregg appears on one or two songs (such as Nueva York) on
the Santana album Shango' , tho on keyboards only.

Well, later on.

-Lewis Beard (lewis@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu)
From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Formerly popular bands who've faded into o
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:38:54 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom
NNTP-Posting-Host: dibble.muppet.bt.co.uk

In article 1GF@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu, kjmcrae@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (insert name here) writes:
>What ever happened to:
>Blue Oyster Cult ("Don't Fear the Reaper")
>
They're still at it. Saw 'em in october in London - brilliant.

But then I'm biased :-)

Tim
---
The harvest of life, the harvest of death	<-- bart@muppet.bt.co.uk -->
Resumes it's course each day			<--     Tim Fulcher      -->
It comes as if by schedule			<--  tel : 0473 648220   -->	
The harvester lives, with arms that are bent	
And toes that cross, and knees that jerk	<-- British Telecom Labs -->
And necks like swans that seem to turn
As if inclined to gasp for breath...	- Quicklime Girl - , BOC
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: jvaleu@boi.hp.com (John Valeu)
Subject: ELP On Tour '93
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:25:49 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho

I recently found out that ELP's Black Moon Tour is spilling over
into 1993.  They are coming to Boise, ID on March 9th.  A complete
listing of tour dates are available on the ELP info line (.99 a 
minute) 1-900-GET2-ELP (all takes about 3 minutes).

JV


Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Mercury/Curry Connection?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:07:12 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

I was told the other day that Freddie Mercury and Tim Curry are (were) 
half-brothers.  Is this true?  Is this some commonly-known piece of
rock & roll trivia that I've somehow missed out on? Or is it just another
one of those stories that comes up every now and then?

I mean, if you look at certain pictures of them in a very dim light 
through some drug-induced haze, you might even say that under the right
circumstances they resemble each other a little.....

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|If you could choose between the body of a 20-year |
|old or the body of a 50-year old, where would you |
|keep it?                                          |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: malfetar@unvax.union.edu (Robert D. Malfetano)
Subject: Re: Pink Floyd:Lyrics
Keywords: Doh!
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:41:51 GMT

	Just want to add something...

	I checked out the archives at 'cs.uwp.edu', but on the track 
'Waiting for the Worms', they don't have a script of what's being said at the
end. If anyone out there knows, I can't tell you how much I'd appreciate it.

	Thanks!
From: miller@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Phil Miller)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:24:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: The end of Rock  LONG LIVE ROCK!!!  Oops.  One more...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll

In alt.rock-n-roll, fjs@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno) writes:

> Here is a little food for thought written be critic David Browne of
> 'Entertainment Weekly' about the Clinton inaugural concert series........


>      "It's ridiculous to continue thinking of rock as standing for anything it
> once did--rebellion, anxiety, teen hormonal frenzy, distrust of authority.  And
> the rock inaugural is also definitive, saddening proof that rock 'n' roll is now
> merely music, merely entertainment...ready to be stuffed, mounted and enshrined
> as feel-good nostalgia for baby boomers."

What a garbage pail comment.  This critic is just stroking his yuppie
readership into thinking that they were "the generation".
Rock didn't stop with Fleetwood Mac -- it's still out there if you know
(or want to know) where to find it.  

> R.I.P. Rock Music

No, don't get fooled again.
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
From: rmichl@iiic.ethz.ch (Robert Michl)
Subject: Re: help - who sings this song
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:46:18 GMT

In article <1jl6rpINN3p6@shelley.u.washington.edu> machman@hardy.u.washington.edu (The Machman) writes:
>ejk@dlogics.com (Rico Suave) writes:
>
>>This one should be pretty simple.  In the Early '80s, there was a song that
>>went something like:
>>
>>Don't turn around whoa oh oh
>>
>>I believe it was called "Der Kommisar" or something like that.
>>Who was the band?
>
>Yes, "Der Kommissar" is correct.  "Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?"
>The original was done by a German band named Falco.  A more up-beat
>cover (and more popular in the US) was done by the group After The Fire.

A little correction: Falco (Hans Hoelzl) isn't german. He's austrian.
From: iyer@juju.wpd.sgi.com (Mahadevan Iyer)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: REM - Man on the Moon lyrics
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:27:06 GMT
Reply-To: iyer@wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I know there have been a lot of postings on "REM lyrics" but if anybody
out there has the lyrics for "man on the moon" please mail to me.

Thanks
From: homer@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Looking for R.E.M.'s "Find the River"
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:33:24 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada



Hi! 

I was wondering if anyone has the lyrics to the R.E.M. song "Find the River".
I've got most of it figured out, but there are a few parts that I'm sketchy
on. 

Thanks in advance to whoever can get this for me!!


				Homer Simpson (a.k.a. Ken Niguma)
From: 00kjfehn@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: who makes this darned song???
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:00:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <2419@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes:
> Augh!!!
> 
> A song was buzzing around my head for a while, and I've managed to get it
> stuck in two other peoples' heads... but none of us can think of who made
> it.  It was from last year, and it's title was:
> 
> 
>   Little Miss Can't-Be-Wrong
> 
> Please help us, before we all go insane!
> 
> Den
>  
> -- 
> ==========================================================================
>   Dennis Lippert   -   macman+@pitt.edu    or    macman@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
> The "Mac Maniac" operator at the Sutherland Hall Lab - Univ. of Pittsburgh
>                              "Just the Macs, Man"
-- 

What rock have you been living under? :)

The group is the Spin Doctors.

The album is "A Pocket Full of Kryptonite."

They performed on Saturday Night Live a few months ago.  Excellent album.
Highly Recommended.  They were on the cover of Rolling Stone two or three 
issues ago.  They also have a live album that just came out recently, and an
EP that came out before "A pocketfull..."

The band is in with that whole Greatful Dead-like thing that includes bands 
like Phish and Blues Traveler.

________________________________________________________________________________
Keith J. Fehn  "KJ"                     | Number 6 of the top 20 Playboy Party 
Ball State University: Student          | Schools?  Yeah, right!  What freakin'
University Computer Labs: Lab Assistant | parties have those guys been going to?
00KJFEHN@BSUVAX1.BINET<--------Faster   | And where was I?  There hasn't been a
00KJFEHN@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU<----Slower   | good party on this campus in 2 years!
________________________________________|_______________________________________
From: 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: PRINCE ANYONE???
Date: 26 Jan 93 05:10:09 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Prince anyone????

brandon
From: maf10@po.CWRU.Edu (Moses A. Fridman)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
Subject: TRADES WANTED!
Date: 23 Jan 1993 02:36:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: maf10@po.CWRU.Edu (Moses A. Fridman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


[I am posting this for a friend from back home in Michigan]

------------------------------------------------------------

WANTED:  Model trains, HO scale; Slot Cars; Star Wars toys;
         The Simpsons merchandise;

Go look in your basement or attic; you may have what I am 
looking for!  

Will trade rare music stuff:  signed; promos; bootleg audio 
and concert footage; rare imports.  From popular rock and 
metal acts like Metallica and GnR to less popular or older
bands.  Will trade just about anything else, too, including
baseball cards.  Cash also possible. 

Write to:      Otto Weyer
               9914 Centralia
               Redford, MI 48239

Call:          (313) 937-8000

------------------------------------------------------------

This guy really has the stuff.  His name is listed in the 
thank you notes for Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh 
Son, and he got me backstage when Metallica came to Detriot.

                                         Moses


 
-- 
    "And the Raven never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
     On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
     And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
     And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;" 
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
From: Ronald.Hartwig@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ronald Hartwig)
Subject: Re: Highway to Hell MTV thang
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:11:16 GMT

johned@cix.compulink.co.uk (John Edwards) writes:

>In-Reply-To: <5JAN199309282198@csa2.lbl.gov> tonya@csa2.lbl.gov (TONYA PUONCEY)

>Re: MTV compo

>It was won by a local (to me) band, ABCD, who take off ACDC, even 
>down to the school suit, I hear they are quite good, though I have 
>not been to see them.
 Some weeks ago I held a CD from ABCD in the hand which was sorted
under AC/DC by mistake. I listened to it but was not impressed at all.
 The songs weren't real covers but 90% look-a-like. Not the real thing
either very original.. no, not a band the world waited for.

	      just my opinion
			Ronald
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From: rubinidf@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Dave Rubinic)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
Subject: Re: Test Please Ignore
Date: 21 Jan 93 05:50:46 GMT
Organization: Drexel University, Phila. Pa.

In article <1993Jan20.215856.1@vax2.winona.msus.edu> wnvalium@vax2.winona.msus.edu writes:
>Test file.  Please ignore.

   Ok, ignored.
--
  Dave Rubinic                            +----------------------------------+
  -> rubinidf@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu        |   Time flies like an arrow,      |
  -> udrubini@mcs.drexel.edu              |   but fruit flies like a banana. |
  -> DaveR9@aol.com                       +----------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
From: owensma@mail.auburn.edu (Monte A. Owens)
Subject: Question when new studio album
Reply-To: owensma@mail.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:11:45 GMT

Does anyone know when ACDC is going to release a new studio album?  I heard that they are supposed to be recording one very soon.

Monte Owens
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
From: johned@cix.compulink.co.uk (John Edwards)
Subject: Re: Highway to Hell MTV thang
Reply-To: johned@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:00:00 +0000


Re: MTV compo

It was won by a local (to me) band, ABCD, who take off ACDC, even 
down to the school suit, I hear they are quite good, though I have 
not been to see them.

John Edwards
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc
From: Ronald.Hartwig@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ronald Hartwig)
Subject: Cold hearted man on CD ??
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:23:32 GMT
Keywords: ACDC

Hi freaks,
  I just received the Australian-ACDC-Box-Set Vol. I with all
the old stuff as published in Australia. It contains TNT, DDDDC,
Powerage, High Voltage, Highway to Hell, Let there be rock.
  The australian releases differ in some ways (as discussed before)
e.g. having "R.I.P.", "Schooldays", "Crapsody in blue" ... and so on.

 But I am missing "Cold hearted man" which was on the normal
European LP "LTBR" but not the CD. I hoped that the australian version would
have it but.. no.

 So my real desperate question: Where is "Cold hearted man" on CD ?

			Hope someone knows

						Ronald
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