dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) (10/31/90)
In article <14148@accuvax.nwu.edu>, george@wciu.edu (George Peavy) writes: > I don't know how New England Telephone does it, but in the front of a > Pacific Bell Directory, under the section marked "Doing Business with > Us", it notes that in metropolitan areas, there is such a thing as a > directory listing phone numbers by addresses for "people who may wish > to reach you, but don't know your name". > [Moderator's Note: They are just talking about a routine criss-cross > directory. The ones from Donnelly Directory, by virtue of being part > of the telco empire, only list what the alpha books list, in telephone > number order. If you are otherwise non-pub, you won't be in those. The > ones from Haynes, R.L. Polk, Dresser's and City Publishing Co. include > everything they can find, and your request to them means nothing. They > even include what non-pub numbers they can find from other sources. > PAT] In Santa Fe, NM, I noticed last week, Mountain Bell publishes the standard white pages listing three times in the same volume: Once by name (like every other white pages I've ever seen), once by address, and once by telephone numer. It makes the phone book for this city of about 50,000 as big as some metro-suburban directories around here which contain only the alphabetical listings! Does any other telco publish these criss-cross listings in the standard phone book that gets circulated to everybody? Does Mountain Bell (or US West) do this throughout their serving area? Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857