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From: kdavis@lamc.UUCP (Ken Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Listed Unlisted Number
Message-ID: <344@lamc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 22:14:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 22:14:13 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
>
>The made-up-name ploy is cheaper than unlisting, and seems just as good
>in every other respect.  Is there any reason I shouldn't do it?

I've had my phone listed under a single surname with no address
for about seven years (as you say, it is cheaper than having the
phone co. unlist it) and I have had no trouble whatsoever.  In
fact, people that want to get hold of me just remember that I am
the only "Bill" in the San Francisco phone book.  %-)


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 Ken Davis - Letterman Army Medical Center - San Francisco, CA 
  {ptsfa,well,hoptoad}!lamc!kdavis  kdavis@optimis-pent.arpa