I just quickly scanned through the info on the link that you gave. Two things made me stop from reading further, first they give obviously false information about germanium being smuggled into the us and Japan, saying that Tokay Sango is the only company producing genuine Ge, thats not true. Then they go on saying that the only source of genuine germanium in the us is vibrant life, and list outrageous, absolutely crazy pice for it. And of course, at the bottom of the page there is a link where one can buy germanium from vibrant life for this crazy price. Looks like a promotion for a scam company to me.
I agree, sometimes its a pain to search through newsgroup's archives, definitely very time consumig. You may want to check out this post and start from there
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smartdrugs/message/4517
here is something from the post that may be of interst for you:
"under the 'sleep bibliography' section, there is a hyperlink you can hit, "receive it" which will take you to a sign up sheet to receive their ~weekly summations of abrstracts of research being conducted all over the world regarding subjects of almost anything remotely related to sleep; ---instructions for signUp are in french and english."
Nick