With the liberal laws I wouldn't put it passed them to be outlawed for using paper...yes people are
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As something related, some phone books are not offering white pages anymore as (they say) being green.
I see that a lot in not printing bank statements, Now IRS forms are not being mailed out and other print is going online.
They say green. But, it is really to save costs.
Some need to face facts, It's becoming a paperless world.
Brian,
Why don't you give your stuff to Harpo for FREE if he gives you $500 per month.
Sounds like he has a pattern of doing such things and then he truly believes it.(Alzheimer's?)
Snipits from an article on the changing face of the phone book:
RICHMOND, Va. — What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a musty fixture of Americans' kitchen counters, refrigerator
tops and junk
drawers.Fewer people rely on paper directories for a variety of reasons: more people rely solely on cell phones, whose numbers typically aren't included in the listings; more listings are available online; and mobile phones and caller ID systems on land lines can store a large number of frequently called numbers.
Steve Keschl can attest to the declining interest. As a doorman at an Upper East Side condo building since 1960, the 84-year-old has watched tenants' fading reaction to the annual delivery of New York City's white pages book – which incidentally weighs in around 3 pounds, 9 ounces, or a little more than a dozen iPhones. These days, the books "sit here pretty long," said Keschl, who added that even he rarely uses the directory anymore. "Sometimes they take them, sometimes they don't."
Since 2007, states that have granted permission to quit printing residential listings or that have requests pending include: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
According to filings with state regulators,
AT&T said in places where it has been permitted to provide the white pages on demand, only about 2 percent of customers have requested a copy.
The residential phone book "no longer provides the same utility it once did,"
AT&T told Missouri regulators, who approved the company's petition for the state's larger metropolitan areas. "The vast majority of customers neither need nor use these often quite large, bound paper directories."
If the white pages are nearing their end, then Emily Goodmann hopes the directories would be archived for historical, genealogical or sociological purposes.
"The telephone directory stands as the original sort of information network that not only worked as kind of a social network in a sense, but it served as one of the first information resources," said Goodmann, a doctoral student at Northwestern University who is writing her dissertation on the history of phone books as information technology. "It's sort of heartbreaking ... even though these books are essentially made to be destroyed."
