Kristi, and everyone else,
The Lactnet archives are freely available to anyone with internet access.
The guidelines state clearly that subscribers should always post with an
awareness that everything sent to Lactnet should be suitable for
publication on the front page of the NY Times. This has natural
consequences for the kind of detail to include or omit from a post.  That
is why my first post on this thread included a caution about the liability
you exposed yourself to by posting so much background data from such an
idiosyncratic situation.

If the only thing you wanted input about was the recipe for the formula
being used, it wasn't necessary to include all the identifying background
about the case, including things that should elicit immediate response to
ensure the child's physical safety.  I did not find your posts reassuring
in that regard, nor in regard to your maintaining client confidentiality.
I just re-read the first post, from Sept 26. After the subject line
'Homemade formula?' follows a post in which the formula is not mentioned
until eleven sentences into the post. It opens with a statement of general
concern about the family, and then describes the mother and the baby in
some detail, in unambiguously alarming terms, before the formula is
mentioned again.  The concluding sentence of the post is "May I please have
input/advice/suggestions?'

Input was not long in coming, from three different continents, all saying
in essence 'YIKES!' - perhaps in part because it was hard to tell whether
you were as alarmed as some of us responders felt you ought to be. Since
you include in your signature line enough information to be able to find
you by googling, and then to locate you from information found on google
search (I just tried while writing this, it took a couple of minutes) there
are several thousand possible 'suspects' for informants, just among our
subscribers.  My best advice to you, which probably sounds brutal, is don't
waste any more energy trying to find out whodunnit, and then, older and
wiser, spend a bit more time editing future posts before sending them.

Sincerely
Rachel Myr
writing now both as a colleague and a listmother on Lactnet from
Kristiansand, Norway - a tiny tiny country where *everyone* knows
*everyone* and you just learn to assume that everything you say today can
come back to bite you tomorrow

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