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[Fair use for education and research purpose only]Title: Glitch leaves out phone listings
Trussville listings left out of new telephone book
03/30/200 By PATRICK HICKERSON News staff writer
If you need a Trussville phone number, don't look in your BellSouth White Pages - at least not yet.
Before the utility distributed the 2000-2001 phone book earlier this month, a computer glitch at the printers zapped 5,000 Trussville phone listings.
The phone company directed its printer to whip up more than a half million supplements for every BellSouth customer in the Birmingham area, said BellSouth spokeswoman Terri Denard.
She said the omission was traced to a new system that produced the 2000-2001 White Pages. "There was a conversion problem
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