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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert  30-Oct-1990 1229)
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Subject: Re: What's the Deal With NET and Directory Listings?
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I've been through this with NET and the Massachusetts DPU.

Residence listings must be simply "the name you go by" and optionally
your spouses name in addition.  So there should be no problem being
listed as either Christopher or Chris; your choice.  You can
optionally be listed as "Christopher & nn".

You can't do anything else in a residence listing, and the DPU will
back NET up on this.

Unless you have a reason for wanting the data line to be listed, you
can solve the problem of people getting the wrong number by requesting
that it be non-pub.  (Not unlisted -- the rep will hear non-listed,
which means D.A. has it but the printed directory doesn't.)

There is no charge for non-pub numbers which are additional lines at
the same address as your main number.


john


[Moderator's Note: John, isn't there an exception made by the DPU, (as
in most states) for the phrase 'TTY' in front of a phone number? TTY
of course implies a form of data service, but it is there not so much
to identify a line as handling data as it is to clue in callers that
the recipient is deaf.  PAT]