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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: net traffic
Message-ID: <320@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 14:44:49 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  6 14:44:49 1985
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From: tektronix!reed!purtell@uw-beaver (Lady Godiva)
>Something that I have noticed about this newsgroup is that very little
>is posted here. Are there just no people out there that think about
>suicide or related things (depression, the legal and/or moral, emotional
>or spiritual aspects of suicide)? Or do people just not want to talk
>about them? If not, why does this newsgroup exist? 

On occasion there have been flurries of activity on this net; yours is
message #98 on my system and we've been receiving netnews for less than a
year.  It'll never be a major net, though.

It's sometimes hard to "open up" to the entire net.  Sometimes there have
been small discussions of legal and ethical issues, but very little has been
said about depression itself.  I think there are people who want to talk
about the issues you mention (because people have in the past) but for some
reason many of us don't initiate these discussions.

							-Dragon
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