On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:54:01 +0100, Paul Weaver
wrote in :
You won't be able to buy paper tickets for longer durations than 1 week
soon AFAIK.

You cant now. Even weekly season tickets (aside from central London) need
a photocard, so they can still correlate movements with people.

How d'you figure that? You don't give *any* personal information
for a photocard, just write a name -- on the card only -- and supply a
photograph. If you buy your weekly OTC the clerk doesn't (IIRC) record
the PC number, just writes it on the ticket. And even if the machine at
your local newsagent stored or passed on your PC number rather than just
printing it on the ticket, there are at most 260,000 different PC numbers
compared to however-many millions must have been issued since they were
introduced, so it's hardly likely to be unique.

Personally I buy paper singles.

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't *really*
out to get you!

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In article , Dr Ivan D. Reid
writes
there are at most 260,000 different PC numbers

That's rubbish, for a start: my photocard number has three letters and
four digits in it, so that's over 175 million.

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