I was responding to the reference in GP’s comment that “…your name, address, and phone number would published…” which is the case with gulesider. Their comment was about pre-internet, mine was referring to the post-internet version. Apologies if there was confusion.

Additionally, the Wikipedia page on ‘Telephone directory’ [0] states:

> A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory