I'm writing to ask the folks on LactNet to help me with a few things. I get
close to 100 email messages a day from people all over the world, including
family, good friends, email buddies, and lots of complete strangers, and I
try to respond in a timely manner.
If I post something to LactNet and you want to forward it to someone or
print it out and share it with someone or post it somewhere, or whatever --
I give *blanket permission* for anything I write to LactNet to be shared
with anyone. Please leave my name attached to anything I write, but you
don't need to send me an email asking permission to share.
If you write and ask me to send you something, please include your full name
and street address. I try to purge my inbox after I reply to a message, so
I'll get a request for something to be mailed, but no street address. I
write back and say, sure I'll send you a copy of Chapter 2 (or whatever),
but I need an address. Then I purge the request. The next day or week, I
get an email with just an address, sometimes not even a name, and I have no
idea which person this was or what it was they wanted -- I simply can't
remember all these things. So, if you are writing asking me to send
something by mail, include your full name and street address and be specific
about what you are requesting.
Please, please, please, do not include my email address on any lists of
people to whom you send jokes (Gail Hertz exempted -- she can still send me
jokes!!). Chances are I've already gotten umpteen copies of the joke
already. This week someone sent me a "joke" that I didn't find amusing, and
then were themselves offended when I wrote back and said I didn't think it
was funny. It wasn't someone from LactNet (I checked), but just in general,
please don't send me jokes. This person never signed her email, and the
return address wasn't a name, so I have no idea who she was.
Please, please, please, don't take offense at anything I write to LactNet.
I *never* intend to be rude or personally critical of anyone. I am a nice
person. One of the reason I often don't include the specific name of the
person whose post I am responding to is because it isn't the person I'm
commenting on, it's whatever the posting was about. If I write in and offer
more information about a topic, or a different perspective on a topic, it is
NOT because I think the original poster was a moron -- rather, it's because
I think more information and multiple perspectives are useful. I truly
enjoy the information, the intellectual stimulation, the sharing, the rants,
and discussions that comprise LactNet. I have learned an incredible amount
over the past few years from reading LactNet and participating in the forum.
Perhaps I am not the most diplomatic person in the world. Well, no
perhaps about that. But please believe me when I say that I do not ever
post things to LactNet in a mean-spirited fashion or to try to make someone
else look bad or feel bad. Honest. I'm a nice person.
Kathy Dettwyler
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