Since they've described themselves so eloquently on their site (which is www.phonelosers.org), I will just describe the PLA to you in their own words:
"PLA stands for Phone Losers of America. If you hadn't figured that out yet then you are a very slow person. PLA was originally an electronic magazine created back in late 1994 and dealing with the usual underground topics of phone phreaking, a little computer hacking, getting stuff for free and learning things that you're not supposed to. We also specialized in making everything humorous and fun to read since at the time that was very hard to come by in the H/P world.
The magazine is no longer published and never will be again. The editor, RBCP, decided he was tired of writing it and wanted to pursue other things such as a life. (Sell out) We've also released two prank phone call tapes which are sold on our page along with other miscellaneous PLA t-shirts & caps, hoping to get filthy rich someday but actually only barely breaking even."
For what it's worth, I should mention that the descriptions for the files below come from the Phone Losers of America themselves.
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Size |
Description of the Textfile |
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la.ans | 3860 | ANSI BBS Ad for the Limited Access BBS
| la.nfo | 1937 | Tag File for the Limited Access BBS
| pla000.txt | 4744 | INDEX For the Phone Losers of America Textfile List
| pla001.txt | 5858 | How To Hack A WWIV BBS. (Humor .NOT for real.) (August, 1994)
| pla002.txt | 32863 | A ZILLION Ways To Make Your Own Red Box (Includes EVERYthing!) (July, 1995)
| pla003.txt | 25813 | Getting Revenge The Cactus Way (October 1994)
| pla004.txt | 5723 | Trashing & Looting Bell Trucks For The Novice (July, 1994)
| pla005.txt | 8431 | Billing All Your Calls To Some Poor, Unsuspecting Son Of A Bitch (May, 1995)
| pla006.txt | 9665 | Tricking AT&T Into Sending You OODLES Of Cash In The Mail (December 1994)
| pla007.txt | 13465 | A List Of Numbers To Call When You're Really Bored (January, 1995)
| pla008.txt | 17756 | Ruining The Life Of A 7-Eleven Employee And Enjoying It (March, 1995)
| pla009.txt | 4392 | A Short Playwrite About Ameritech Corporate Security's Jim Bayless (November, 1994)
| pla010.txt | 7599 | Scanner Frequencies (Includes Cordless, McDonalds, Cellular) (January, 1995)
| pla011.txt | 9746 | Phone Loser Fone Call Transcripts (January, 1995)
| pla012.txt | 6791 | Converting Your 2400 Baud Modem to 14.4 For Free (January, 1995)
| pla013.txt | 61947 | Miscellaneous Fone Tricks And Petty Scams (January, 1995)
| pla014.txt | 22329 | Cordless Phone Hell (Story of some poor SOB with a cordless phone) (January, 1995)
| pla015.txt | 22149 | Taking Beige Boxing To The Ultimate Limit (January, 1995)
| pla016.txt | 4496 | Deaf Fones, Phone Books & Phone Bills (February, 1995)
| pla017.txt | 9210 | Miscelleneous Letters From The Phone Company *February, 1995)
| pla018.txt | 26381 | The imcomplete complete collection of Kevin Mitnick articles (February, 1995)
| pla019.txt | 23120 | Fun With Call Forwarding (February, 1995)
| pla020.txt | 28254 | Gathering Information On People & Businesses (CN/A Alternatives) (February, 1995)
| pla021.txt | 5118 | PLA Job Application (March, 1995)
| pla022.txt | 7555 | BBS Back Doors & Flaws (February, 1995)
| pla023.txt | 13485 | Long Distance Access Codes (KNOW the code!) (March, 1995)
| pla024.txt | 27547 | Dabbling In Credit Card Fraud (March, 1995)
| pla025.txt | 16989 | Taking Over Fred Meyers From The Comfort Of Your Own Home (March, 1995)
| pla026.txt | 7233 | Detailed Information On Various Phone Offices Around The Universe (May, 1995)
| pla027.txt | 8524 | Nursery Rhymes For Baby Phreaks & Other Perverts (March, 1995)
| pla028.txt | 15107 | Ordering Telephone Calling Cards (March, 1995)
| pla029.txt | 5211 | Stealing The Pay Channels From TCI Cable (April, 1995)
| pla030.txt | 42038 | GIF Descriptions, Store Scams, Pointless Large Intro, News, Utah (May, 1995)
| pla031.txt | 17168 | Acidflux's Story Time Hour (May, 1995)
| pla032.txt | 29079 | RiGHT BRiGADE, How to get CN/A iNFo, Poemz, Newz (June, 1995)
| pla033.txt | 58243 | Running The Town, Classifeds, Interviews With Residents of Roy (July, 1995)
| pla034.txt | 104813 | BBSing Lameness in the 618 Area Code ("618 Forever!") (August, 1995)
| pla035.txt | 55913 | 618 Follow-up, Reviews of DefCon, Review of BustCon (September, 1995)
| pla036.txt | 29025 | Entries From a Stolen Diary, PLA Editorial, Operator Hell (October, 1995)
| pla037.txt | 58472 | Special Christmas Issue, FACs, New Christmas Carols, Send-A-Song (December, 1995)
| pla038.txt | 33774 | BustCon '95, OCI Secret Papers, more Apok0lyps ramblings, news (April, 1996)
| pla039.txt | 39905 | Shrink Wrap Machines, Red boxing busts, Wrong numbers (July, 1996)
| pla099.txt | 178154 | DHate's Unauthorized PLA - You don't wanna know what's in this one (November, 1995)
| plaindex.txt | 6056 | Index for Phone Losers of America Files, April 9, 1996
| plaorder.txt | 5932 | Order Form for Various Phone Losers of America Merchandise
| to713via.dfx | 10248 | GREAT Tag File for the K-Rad ASCII Posse (KRAP)
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| There are 46 files for a total of 1,132,118 bytes. |