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From: kaufman@SHASTA.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Listed Unlisted Number
Message-ID: <2047@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 13:13:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 13:13:42 1987
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In article <870925-224748-17534@Xerox> Paul Gloger <Gloger.ES@Xerox.COM> writes:
>I would like to have a home phone number unlisted, at least effectively
>so.  I seem to have the choice of either paying my local phone company
>(Pac Bell) to unlist it; or having it listed under a made-up name with
>an unlisted address, which the phone company will do for free.

There is a third option, which the phone company never tells you about.
Ask for "NO MAIN LIST".  This is free.  The phone number is not "UNlisted",
but does not appear in the directory.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu)