[51590] in Cypherpunks
Re: Switchboard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Mar 7 09:08:29 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:04:13 -0500
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz), stevenw@best.com (Steven Weller),
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
At 2:27 AM 3/7/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I checked them out and the couldn't find my record. Since I have a listed
> telephone number, I can only assume that their records do not include GTE
> local service records or some other equally huge gap.
I was messing around with this a year and a half ago (woulda shoulda
coulda), and my guess is they're using Reuben Donnelly's database. They're
the largest phonebook printer, and they even go so far as to OCR a lot, but
apparently not all, of their competition.
They say 90 million names, and that seems to be the number I was quoted...
Cheers,
Bob
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