I realized something in reading the dental posts.  I think we're all doing just what *I* was doing when I wrote - taking an idea, playing with it to see where *I* stood, even changing my stance as I wrote.  No flames remotely considered.

I've never looked at lactnet quite this way, and I'm intrigued by it.  We write not so much to convince others who are "wrong" as to try something out for *ourselves* - to hone our arguments, consider our angles, create our philosophies.  

I hope every poster who starts a thread will understand that that's what's likely to happen - people will take that first pebble and tumble it around, coming up with things that the first poster didn't expect and may not agree with and smoothing the edges on it for their own use.  But it's not feuding with the poster herself that's going on; it's personal philosophical polishing that wouldn't happen without that original post.  Funny I never noticed this before  - at least about myself.  And what a cool use of lactnet!

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.wiessinger.baka.com  

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