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From: boulder!pikes!craycos.com!ewv@ncar.ucar.edu (Eric Varsanyi)
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Subject: Re: Avoiding Unlisted Number Charge
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Date: 28 Jun 90 19:54:18 GMT
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In article <9352@accuvax.nwu.edu> rkaplan@nlm.nih.gov (Richard Kaplan)
writes:

>Could I not tell the phone company that I wish my number to be listed
>as Hugo Gorschonavitz?  Or as my own name spelled backward?  Or as Mr.
>Unlisted K. Number?  Or do they insist that I use my legal name as it
>appears on my bill?

	I didn't feel like paying the $2/mo to be unpublished, so I
told USWest that we wished to be listed under my wife's maiden name,
which (conveniently) was 'Smith' (I looked for the name with the most
pages in the directory). Since her name is Ami we are now listed as 'A
Smith', no address. They didn't hesitate or ask for any kind of proof.
They did allow me to not be listed in criss cross directory for no
charge.

	All this after a long argument about paying $2/mo. So far the
only call we've gotten for A Smith was from 611 repair (you would
think they have access to the actual records).


Eric Varsanyi (ewv@craycos.com)        Cray Computer Corporation

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