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From: tachyon@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (tane' tachyon)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: BBS's/Phone Books/company
Message-ID: <1058@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 17 Jan 90 15:27:17 GMT
References: <1054@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: tachyon@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (tane' tachyon)
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In article <1054@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> keeper@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Ron O'Dell) writes:
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> 
>Anyhow, in Santa Cruz, Pyrzqxgl BBS is in our phone book.  There is another
>rather obscure system in there, too (you know the type, the mysterious BBS
>that no one calls yet remains running for some reason)^ s/b semicolon.
> 
>However, I believe that it's only been spelled correctly once--though I haven't
>checked the new book yet.  I'm not sure if Pac Bell knows that it's a BBS rather
>than some obscure name, though.  but I'm sure that Pyrzqxgl's sysop, Tachyon,
>will read this and comment............
>

Ahh, how can I disappoint such faith!  Yes, Pyrzqxgl is in the phone book,
but only in the white pages -- what they were talking about was a 
section in the yellow pages just for computer bulletin boards.  Actually
Stuart III (!) was once listed under "Time-sharing systems" in the
yellow pages (or a title to that effect -- that section doesn't seem
to be in the current phonebook).

How did Pyrzqxgl get in the white pages?  Well, a certain Mr. S. told
them that "BBS Pyrzqxgl" was his weirdo girlfriend's name, so it
winds up as "Pyrzqxgl B B S" as the last entry in the "P"'s.
Yes, they got the spelling right this year.