20 april 1995 Ottawa Typically mother's maiden name is used in Canada as a password with credit card companies et al to prove you are you when you telephone them say to rreport a lost card. The joke here is if I knew you well and knew your family, I could easily pass for you as i would know your date of birth and mother's maiden name. What is syllabus about? Computers in Higher education? Sounds like a typically named meaningless politically correct publication. If you think the magazine is not nice, tell their advertisers not thepublisher. I will end the thread on mother's maiden names now as this is really unrelated to list administration.