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From: jonl@pro-smof.cts.com (Jon Lebkowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Phone privacy question.
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Date: 6 Jan 91 17:56:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from craig@com50.c2s.mn.org

They COPYRIGHT the phone book? Gee, I guess they do....I never thought about
it before.

I've worked for companies that maintain and compile mailing lists, and
transfer them from one format to another...it's a big business, and their lots
of ways to get the info. You wouldn't have to scan the phone book, for
instance: if you wanted that database badly enough, you could just hire the
data entry folks and enter character by character.