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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: What's the Deal with NET and Directory Listings?
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Date: 5 Nov 90 06:30:30 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 793, Message 1 of 11


Christopher Gillett wrote in volume 10, issue 772:

[Christopher wants DA to give out his numerically higher telephone
number rather than the numerically lower one.]

| The bottom line is that I cannot be listed at 9020 as
| "Christopher Gillett", I had to be listed as "Chris Gillett", and have
| the 3691 line changed to unlisted.  Their reasoning was that since
| "Chris" comes before "Christopher", and 9020 comes after 3691, it was
| necessary to have "Chris" at the 9020 number to avoid the directory
| assistance operator telling people I was unlisted.

| All this seems incredibly stupid to me.  It seems to me that you
| should able to be listed in the phone book in the manner of your
| choosing, using your name or legal, proper derivation thereof, without
| a lot of hassling.  If someone is looking for the "official me",
| they'll look for Christopher.  A directory assistance operator might
| say "well, I have a 'Chris', do you want that?", but then again the
| operator might not.  So, it's not only a nuisance and a nit, it could
| cause problems.

Christopher, do you have a middle initial?  Can you pretend to have
one?  Consider retitling your service on 3691 as "Christopher Z.
Gillett" [or use your real middle initial if you like].  That way only
9020 will be listed for "Christopher Gillett," 9020 will appear first
in the DA operators' displays, and you won't have to pay for an
unlisted number nor hope that people will ask for "Chris".

It worked for me when I was in the same situation; I had my middle
initial stripped from the registration for my higher-numbered phone
line so that it would be the one that showed up when people asked DA
for my number.


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