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>(Unfortunately?) this information is *easy* to obtain by going to your
>local library and asking to see the criss-cross directories.  They are
>the converse of the phone book and list all the people in the phone
>book sorted by telephone number.

Which is what I just did; now I have the number.  I love criss-cross
directories. :-)

>If you have filed a complaint with
>either the police and/or the phone company, they would probably be
>happy to provide you with the phone number (assuming they believe your
>conclusion).

No need to do that now...

>I would advise against contacting this person.  Since
>you are positive that she is the one, wouldn't it be easier (I sure
>know it would be safer) for you to turn her phone number over to the
>proper authorities (the police and the phone company)?  They have
>special people who get paid by *your taxes/phone bills* to handle
>idiots like this.  I am sure this moron will take much more heed from
>a call from the police or a note from the phone company threatening to
>prosecute her or disconnect her phone than she will from a call from
>you (after all; it is your attention that she wants in the first
>place)!

I'm not going to *call* her; I'd have to be stark raving nuts to do
that.  (Not that I'm not a little crazy anyway. :-)  But when/if she
calls back, I plan to say "No, Ms. <so-and-so>, your friend isn't
here, and if you call here again I'll give your name to the police
and let them handle this."  While New York Tel probably won't believe
me (after all, this is the company that, for three months, was convinced
that my name was Theresa Shapiro), I'd bet the police would if I gave
them the information.

 -- Dave