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John:
LOA can be reached at 415-841-6302 (8-1-N, running up to 9600 baud). The sysop
there, Charles Collier, is a very knowledgeable fellow. It's mainly a West
Coast crowd (lots of hot tub talk and such) but I noticed last time I was on
they had elected David Geller (who regularly frequents this forum) to the Board
of Directors so I'm counting on him to represent the East a bit more.
It's mainly geared at type shop and service bureau personnel (in addition to
Lino, the board handles info on most typesetting equipment, especially
PostScript imagesetters like Cg and Varityper). The libraries have some useful
code and utilities and I've gotten some very technical questions answered there
days before I got a call back from Linotype.
If it wasn't such an expensive call, I'd be on it a lot more often.
–jon