Several of you have suggested changing LACTNET in different ways. I can tell you that what it is (clinical information *and* support, both personal and professional) is exactly what it was envisioned to be and this particular co-mother does not wish it to change. Tonight, as I prepared to log off, I received a new message from a 17-year-old male. I felt his comments were worth sharing, so--without identifying their source--here is what HE had to say about LACTNET. "Please don't take my cancellation personally. My mother asked me to sign on to LACTNET for her and print out the messages. Neither of us had any idea how much mail it would generate! As an Internet veteran, I commend you not only on how active a list you have, but on how much of its content is intellectual and informative. Although I simply can't handle the amount of mail the list generates, I've learned a lot about everything from nipple shields to the poetic ability of nurses. I only wonder what my system administrators must think of why a seventeen year-old technology trainer is getting e-mail about breastfeeding! At any rate, I have amassed close to one thousand typewritten pages of LACNET that my mother has yet to read. Until she can get an e-mail account she can check every day, I'll have to unsubscribe. It was getting to the point where I'd come home from work and say, "Hey mom! Guess what I learned on LACTNET today!" Although it was educational, I can't cope with the volume. In fact, and I swear and am not kidding, when I sent my cancellation request, the first message I got back was not a response, but A LACTNET ISSUE! A moment later, the response came back. Thanks again for a wonderful list that's just a little too wonderful for me right now! :)" Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]