A surplus of phone books

Today's dead tree edition of Greenwich Time has an AP story on the so-far-futile attempt by legislatures to permit homeowners to opt out of receiving 5000 phone books each year. The article isn't avialable on line but while Googling for it I came across a similar article which I link to above. Most encouraging news" Bill Gates thinks the books will be obsolete in five years. Others aren't as sanguine, because there's lots of money generated by these things but for once, I'll hope that Gates is right.