Parkinson's Disease Newsgroup?

[Charles B. Taylor]

Where is the Parkinson's Disease newsgroup? I keep seeing references to
alt.support.parkinson but when my computer loads the newsgroups it is
simply not there. Has this newsgroup been dropped or is there another
site where it resides?

[Julie]

I checked my news reader and did a search for Parkinson's - it came up
zero. I did find some sites using google, but not sure that is what you
are looking for.

Take care,
Julie

[Baird Stafford]

Ny news server does not list alt.support.parkinson or parkinsons,
either. Nor can I find a support group for Parkinson's down on the
soc.* hierarchy, which is where many other support groups live.

It is always possible to create a new newsgroup on a subject that's
important. If you wish to create one on the alt.* heirarchy, which is
the easiest, the place to lurk for a while is on alt.config - the people
who actually know how to or are in the process of creating new groups
talk there.

It is more difficult to create new groups in the Big 8 hierarchies (the
soc.* heirarchy is the only one in which I found support groups, by the
way, although I'll admit it was the only one in which I *expected* to
find support groups and therefore I kind of skimmed the others).
news.groups is the place to go for answers on how group creation, there.

There is one further source of information of which you might avail
yourself: periodically, a more or less complete list of support groups
- mailing lists as well as newsgroups - is or used to be posted down on
news.answers. You might have a look at that - it still existed the last
time I wanted it, a couple of years ago.

Blessed be,
Baird

[Mare]

If you put "Parkinson's support group" into Google there are lots
of results. Might find one you like.
--
Mare
mfco...@THEOLEmindspring.com
http://www.muggsmulcher.com/kstuff/a.s.a/intro.htm
alt.support.alzheimers' FAQs and Stuff Pages

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[Owl...@yahoo.co.uk]

ba...@newstaff.com (Baird Stafford) wrote in message news:<1gfqhyj.nrusfr1osxn0gN%ba...@newstaff.com>...

> Charles B. Taylor <cbta...@alaweb.com> wrote:
>
> > Where is the Parkinson's Disease newsgroup? I keep seeing references to
> > alt.support.parkinson but when my computer loads the newsgroups it is
> > simply not there. Has this newsgroup been dropped or is there another
> > site where it resides?
>

Search Yahoo Groups - there are some Parkinson's ones among them, I believe.

[BoAnthony42]

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=f4ef777a498068e488390509bb4443ac&f=199
is a pretty good group if you want clinical information about PD.

[robertm...@gmail.com]

On Monday, June 21, 2004 at 1:40:19 PM UTC-5, Baird Stafford wrote:

> Charles B. Taylor <cbtay...@alaweb.com> wrote:
>
> > Where is the Parkinson's Disease newsgroup? I keep seeing references to
> > alt.support.parkinson but when my computer loads the newsgroups it is
> > simply not there. Has this newsgroup been dropped or is there another
> > site where it resides?

I downloaded several messages from alt.support.parkinsons years ago, but not from Google Groups, which does not appear to carry it.

Today, I found several articles relevant to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and more, and tried to find the newsgroup again. Not found.

However, I did find a place to post the list:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=6684

This is part of a site that is asking for people to volunteer time on their computers to help with research on, among other things, Alzheimers:

Rosetta@home
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

I've been contributing time of my computer to their project since 2008.

Not much choice of which parts of their research any computer time you contribute will help.