Here's the alt.support.dissociation knowledge I put together! It has a link to the GoogleGroups archive. Looks like it was created 8/28/1994; before that, a lot of multiples hung out on alt.support.abuse-recovery, but it wasn't explicitly for multiples.
I'm looking to see if the BBS records were uploaded and saved anywhere (since I know the local copies we were given by Astraea have been edited, and I'd rather have the raw data, you know?) but I haven't been having much luck so far. I know that the Love Galaxy BBS apparently had some multiples on it, and looks to have been run by a multiple, but the records we have start in 1992, and textfiles.com only has the barest bones record for it, and only for 1994. So that's not really good sources.
The BBS records are really abstruse and nonintuitive, which is why I haven't really dug into them. It's on my to-do list. But it'll take a while for sure.
--Sneak
EDIT: okay, grubbing around in the archives of textfiles.com, I found a couple on this 1996 list. The page is huge, you'll have to Ctrl+F for it.) Namely:
M_P_D !!! DELETE WARNING !!! Multiple Personality Disorder Support Conference for support & discussion of MPD/DID. This conference is for individuals with MPD & for families of patients with MPD. No Flaming, Aliases permitted and strongly suggested. Anyone interested in the discussion of MPD is welcome. Barb Murphy, 1:130/911 has updated this entry to maintain its backbone status pending clarification of the moderators intentions. As of this update, the previous moderators have been removed. If they should decide to come back and actively moderate this echo, then I'll move aside as moderator. Origin: Distribution: Z1 Backbone Gateways: # Nodes: 100 Volume: Flags: Moderators: Barb Murphy, 1:130/911 Moderators: Katie ., 1:124/1208 Last changed: 02 May 96 by Barb Murphy, 1:130/911
There was also... SIP_MPD Singleness in Purpose - Multiple Personality Disorder SIP_MPD is a support echo for anyone for whom multiple personality/disassocitive disorders is an issue. Origin: 153/840 Distribution: Gateways: # Nodes: 7 Volume: 30/week Rules: Flags: Moderators: Christopher, 1:153/840 Last changed: 14 Jul 96 by Christopher di Armani, 1:153/840
I also found a "Dissociation Network" in 1995 which was networked into a Health Care Network... so that might be a DID BBS. It looks like it ran from 1993-1996, which at least helps nudge it before a.s.d, if that metadata is accurate (which it isn't always).
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I'm looking to see if the BBS records were uploaded and saved anywhere (since I know the local copies we were given by Astraea have been edited, and I'd rather have the raw data, you know?) but I haven't been having much luck so far. I know that the Love Galaxy BBS apparently had some multiples on it, and looks to have been run by a multiple, but the records we have start in 1992, and textfiles.com only has the barest bones record for it, and only for 1994. So that's not really good sources.
The BBS records are really abstruse and nonintuitive, which is why I haven't really dug into them. It's on my to-do list. But it'll take a while for sure.
--Sneak
EDIT: okay, grubbing around in the archives of textfiles.com, I found a couple on this 1996 list. The page is huge, you'll have to Ctrl+F for it.) Namely:
M_P_D
!!! DELETE WARNING !!!
Multiple Personality Disorder Support
Conference for support & discussion of MPD/DID. This conference is
for individuals with MPD & for families of patients with MPD.
No Flaming, Aliases permitted and strongly suggested.
Anyone interested in the discussion of MPD is welcome.
Barb Murphy, 1:130/911 has updated this entry to maintain its backbone
status pending clarification of the moderators intentions. As of this
update, the previous moderators have been removed. If they should
decide to come back and actively moderate this echo, then I'll move
aside as moderator.
Origin:
Distribution: Z1 Backbone
Gateways:
# Nodes: 100 Volume:
Flags:
Moderators: Barb Murphy, 1:130/911
Moderators: Katie ., 1:124/1208
Last changed: 02 May 96 by Barb Murphy, 1:130/911
There was also...
SIP_MPD
Singleness in Purpose - Multiple Personality Disorder
SIP_MPD is a support echo for anyone for whom multiple
personality/disassocitive disorders is an issue.
Origin: 153/840
Distribution:
Gateways:
# Nodes: 7 Volume: 30/week Rules:
Flags:
Moderators: Christopher, 1:153/840
Last changed: 14 Jul 96 by Christopher di Armani, 1:153/840
These two echos also existed in September and June 1995.
I also found a "Dissociation Network" in 1995 which was networked into a Health Care Network... so that might be a DID BBS. It looks like it ran from 1993-1996, which at least helps nudge it before a.s.d, if that metadata is accurate (which it isn't always).