Re: alias in phone book

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>]

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