Hello. As LACTNET has made its debut and has grown exponentially in the past month, we, the co owners, are ver pleased, and hope that everyone is enjoying the interplays that are occuring, Periodically, we will be finetuning our LACTNET welcome message and Netiquette guidelines, in order to ensure smooth functioning. The following statement will be added to the automatically-generated computer message that is sent when a new subscriber joins LACTNET. We share it with you for your own information, and we hope that everyone understands that it is just information, NOT a reprimand to anyone. We are careful because we are responsible. Thanks, and keep the good information coming!!! NOTE: As of Saturday, the logs (retrievable files of comments made here on LACTNET) for LACTNET will be available on a WEEKLY basis, instead of monthly. If you go away, and miss something because you set yourself NOMAIL, then you can request the log for the weeks you are away. PRODUCT/SERVICE NOTE: If you have used a product, book, or service (regardless of what it is) and wish to inform others about it, you may do so, but please do not share prices of obtaining same in public messages on LACTNET. This smacks of SELLING, and LACTNET is *not* the appropriate place for this. To do so places the person posting such information and the server (in this case, LACTNET) and the owners in a potentially litigious position. None of us wants to have to answer to an irate attorney and his/her/its client, so please note. Sharing information is wonderder; sharing prices is not. ********************************************************************** One example: "I just loved/hated Product A because.... If you wish information about it, write to [give address for this purpose].>" The above is acceptable, as long as you do not post price or rental fees of equipment, curricula, or other material for sale/rent. **************************************************************************** ****************** QUOTING NOTES FROM LACTNET Occasionally you may see something that someone has posted to LACTNET that you may wish to share in some other context, such as in hardcopy in a newsletter, etc. To do so, please remember that what you post on LACTNET has the effect of being placed on the front page of the NY Times. This means you MUST secure written (via e-mail or hard copy) permission of the original poster of the message in order to share it in some other context. This is both polite and enables you to credit the originator of the message. We, the co-owners of LACTNET, cannot enforce this, but we expect that you all will honor this official announcement and recommendation. Thank you. KB/KA ********************************************************** Kathleen B. Bruce RN, BSN, IBCLC Williston, Vermont USA [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************