Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: travis@douglass.cs.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Last Laugh! Noms de Guerre
Message-ID: <3668@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 22:17:45 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 28
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 87, message 13 of 13


In article <3615@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:

>He pointed out that if/when anyone comes to his door asking for that
>person, its an immediate tip-off the visitor is up to no good. (wink!
>wink! smirk!). He says he has been able to avoid Haines since 1971.
>PT]

Who or what is "Haines"??

Arpa:	travis@cs.columbia.edu	Usenet: rutgers!columbia!travis


[Moderator's Note: 'Haines' is the Haines Directory Company, a/k/a the
'criss-cross book'. Haines, along with other similar publishers such
as Dressler's, R.L. Polk, Donnelly, and the City Publishing Company of
Independence, KS publishes cross reference directories which are just
telephone books arranged in street number order or telephone number
order rather than alphabetical. So walking down the street, I wonder
who lives in that nice house next door....the local criss-cross book
'addressokey' section tells me that 1234 Any Street is occupied by the
Smith family, and the phone number is 123-4567.  Or, I have a message
to call Mr. Smith at the number 123-4567. I never heard of him; who is
he? Before I call, I consult the 'telokey' portion of the criss-cross:
123-4567 is listed as the Smith Collection Agency, 1234 Any Street.

Very useful books, the criss-cross directories, although I don't like
being listed in them myself.... :)     PT]