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From: Sam Drake <ibmarc!ks!sd2.almaden.ibm.com!drake@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Can I Be Charged to Have My Number Not Listed?
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Date: 2 Feb 90 08:06:06 GMT
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In article <3353@accuvax.nwu.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) 
writes:

>Well, I wanted unlisted, but didnt want to pay for unlisting, so I
>used OLD TRICK NUMBER 5123443 and put in a name different than my own.
>(K.Dijkstra instead of K. Dykes, original eh? :-) :-) 

A friend of mine got away with a similar trick one year; he listed his
2nd (modem) phone line as belonging to Mr. T. T. Y. Glass.  Naturally
this was listed as "Glass TTY ......345-6789" in the white pages.  I
think this only lasted a year.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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