Seattle Residents Can Now Opt Out of a Yellow Pages - Save a tree. Kill your phone book. I’ve made fun of the yellow pages — those antiquated bricks of cut trees — for many years. I even registered some domain names related to opting out of receiving the books (which for me go straight into the trash): CancelPhonebooks.com and PhonebookOptOut.com. Now residents of Seattle can opt out of receiving their Yellow Pages. Predictably, the Yellow Pages industry is fighting this in court. This means they don’t care ... read more ...

AT&T Thinks Printed Phone Books are Passe - Flyer says white pages “available upon request”. I got an ATT Austin phone book in the mail the other day. It was addressed to a new limited liability company I recently formed. Never mind that I already received a couple phone books this year and didn’t request another one. But a flyer on top of the phone book caught my eye. It basically said we aren’t sending you a printed white pages (residential) and you should access white page listings through an ... read more ...