From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
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.
Eric
It's definitely false, at least here in NYC. A well-known alternative to having an unlisted phone number (a privilege that the phone company charges extra for, the crooks) is to have your phone listed under a different name. So, if I'm listed in the phone book as "Nick Drake," I'm still listed, and so I don't get charged for being unlisted. However, anyone looking for D. Mandl in the phone book won't find me, so I'm _effectively_ unlisted. Strange but true. --Dave.