Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Customer Name and Address Service Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 89 04:53:29 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 122, message 2 of 7 > Illinois or several other states ... > provide public CN/A (Customer Name and Address) services, much > like a reverse directory bureau. In the early 1960's when I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, a form of reverse directory was included right in the public directory, as "Pink Pages". Where the white pages might say Brader S L 12219 51st St ........... 477-7474 the pink ones would just have 7474 Brader as an entry under the heading 477; thus they were much shorter than the white pages. I was too young in those days to think of investigating whether the pink pages listings included all phone numbers or only some classes thereof, and I have no idea when they stopped doing that. By the way, that was my actual phone number. Best one I've ever had, though for most of the time we had it, it was still GRanite 7-7474. My present one has a pretty nice pattern, too: 488-6366. Unfortunately, the number 488-6636 belongs to a business. -- Mark Brader "It can be amusing, even if painful, to watch the SoftQuad Inc., Toronto ethnocentrism of those who are convinced their utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com local standards are universal." -- Tom Chapin