I want to publically thank Kathleen Bruce for her efforts -- and I am sure they are tiresome! -- to keep our list focused on its main purposes. Lactnet has been able to include humor, venting, and occasional political and religious asides because there has been a great deal of sensitivity and acceptance of diversity. Appropriate qualities for an international list. It is intolerable to have distracting interruptions and sniping from people who are forgetting to practice these conventions of polite discourse. Most of the world, and most of us Americans on the list have not one whit of interest in listening to this embarrassing flaming. Any time critics of Lactnet or of K.B. want to put in the extremely hard work involved in creating and running a web page, go for it! That would be a good place to express political views. In the meantime, personal attacks against Kathleen B. (which one particular person seems compelled to do publically) must cease. Barbara Wilson-clay, BSE, IBCLC Austin, Tx priv. pract. Owner of LACTNEWS On-Line (http://moontower.com/bwc/lactnews.html)