>Anyone have any ideas on where to even ask about this sort of thing?? (I
>have already asked on alt.support.depression, and have followed up several
>leads in that direction. Now I am looking for more info that perhaps a
>"usenet administrator" type person could answer. For instance,
>alt.support.depression is at least older than 1994, and so it predates
>DejaNews archives. But maybe someone else out there has an archive that
>would have the control post messages that started the group. That sort of
>thing.
The newgroup control messages for asd are archived at:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/control/alt/alt.support.depression.Z
Beware of using Deja News for any serious statistical data collection.
They are notoriously inaccurate.
Best,
Captain Infinity