> Have you tried doing a reverse search on a phone number lately? Somebody from Ohio called me while I was down in Georgia and the number was on my caller ID when I got home. So I searched it on Lycos, Yahoo, Dogpile and some others. They admit that they know who it is, but want $14 or some such price to tell me.
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> Is nothing free anymore? I can remember when air was free. You could go into a service station(remember those?) and pump up your tire with their compressor for nothing. Now it costs two bits.
> Howard

In Finland, telephone operators run a search - reverse search service through a standardised number. You can ask what someone's number is, or who some number belongs to. If the number is secret they won't answer. It only costs the normal telephone call fees, which is less than €1 per minute.