Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:23:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re" Phone Numbers
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
>Date: Mon May 02 11:18:23 CDT 2005
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: The May 2005 WSFA Journal is available online

>Google (and Yahoo and 411.com, etc.) can only get what the phone company,
>or others, publish.  At the moment it only turns up my work phone number.
>I'd like to keep it that way.  I'm sure the phone company would too, as if
>the info gets out, there's no reason to pay them anymore.  You don't want
>the phone company mad at you do you?  ;-)

Except that each of the many many phone number services on the web do not have to contact each individual whose number they list to get permission.

When you choose to have your number unlisted by your phone company, is this a service they provide (and charge extra for) or a right you invoke?