Dianne,

I have cut and pasted below two excerpts from our Welcome Note/List
Guidelines that are relevant to your question:
 
***Emails to Lactnet are not monitored, moderated or checked in any way
before appearing on the list. Information in posts is not necessarily
correct. Take what is said on Lactnet as one person's opinion, use critical
reading skills, and check with reliable sources before using any information
provided on Lactnet. The list administrators take no responsibility for
content of Lactnet postings.**

AND

***Posts on LACTNET may not be reproduced or quoted without gaining the
permission of the original poster. This is polite, ethical, and enables you
to credit the originator of the message. We, the co-owners of Lactnet,
expect that all subscribers will honor this.***

So, no, you may not provide mothers of posts from Lactnet without obtaining
the permission of the original author of the post, which you can do by
emailing them directly and asking.  Of course, we cannot police this, and we
know that it happens, but we would appreciate it if original authors are
asked prior to the use of their posts.  There may be errors they wish to
correct or different wording they would use if they thought their posts
might be used for mothers rather than professionals.

Thanks for checking with us prior!  That *is* greatly appreciated.

Kathy

P.S.  If anyone has misplaced their copy of the Lactnet guidelines, they can
be obtained by sending the command "get lactnet welcome" to
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lactation Information and Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dianne Oliver
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [LACTNET] copying and pasting LACTNET posts for mothers
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What are the guidelines for copying and pasting pieces of 
> LACTNET posts from other LCs that contain information we'd 
> like to impart to moms via email?
> 
> When searching the archives for information on various 
> subjects, I often find posts that either exactly say what I 
> want to convey to a mom or pieces of posts that I'd like to 
> cut and paste.  May I do that? Although I could, of course, 
> just reword the info I find on LACTNET, it is, of course, 
> time- consuming and seems unnecessary to have to "reinvent 
> the wheel" when the info is right there. Can I just give 
> credit to the writer, i.e. "Below is a response from Sally 
> Jones on the LACTNET email list..."  or just a general 
> statement such as "an IBCLC on one of my lactation 
> professional chat lists" states....
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dianne Oliver, IBCLC
> Simi Valley, CA

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