17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Eric Hughes says:
A professor of communications has brought up the fact that it is illegal to use a pseudo in the white pages of the phone book. Is this the case?
I would suggest first, to ask this professor to make a legal citation, and if one is not forthcoming, to ask for a retraction of the claim.
A friend of mine who's a lawyer has a subtle pseudo in the phone book because he doesn't want to be harrassed at home by clients. (Basically he's listed under a deliberate misspelling of his name.) The phone company cheerfully listed him under a different name than the one on his bill. The "professor" in question is likely very very wrong. Perry