From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  David Samuel Barr   
    writes:   
      
   >Unless the business model has changed in   
   >recent years the Yellow Pages were always   
   >an advertising medium, not a reference   
   >directory; businesses had to pay to be   
   >listed, with the majority also buying the   
   >display ads which were the bulk of the   
   >space of the book.   
      
   In NYC, at least (presumably most, if not all,   
   of the One System, It Works, Bell Telephone),   
   if you had a "business line", which was more   
   expensive than residential, you got the   
   basic one line listing in the Yellow Pages   
   included at no extra cost.   
      
      
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