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From: ron@chopin.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Phonebook Distribution / Fascination with Numbers
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Date: 7 Sep 89 18:01:30 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 357, message 8 of 12

In the old days, you used to be able to get phone books for distant places for
free, not so anymore.  It used to be that you could call up the phone company
in a given area and order a "state set."  A large box would show up in a week
or so full of all the phone books for that state.  Unfortunately post-divesti-
ture phone companies aren't so generous.  Last time I asked for a DC phone
book, they wanted me to pay.

-Ron