Several of you have suggested changing LACTNET in different ways.  I can
tell you that what it is (clinical information *and* support, both personal
and professional) is exactly what it was envisioned to be and this
particular co-mother does not wish it to change.

Tonight, as I prepared to log off, I received a new message from a
17-year-old male.  I felt his comments were worth sharing, so--without
identifying their source--here is what HE had to say about LACTNET.

"Please don't take my cancellation personally.  My mother asked
me to sign on to LACTNET for her and print out the messages.
Neither of us had any idea how much mail it would generate!  As
an Internet veteran, I commend you not only on how active a
list you have, but on how much of its content is intellectual
and informative.  Although I simply can't handle the amount of
mail the list generates, I've learned a lot about everything
from nipple shields to the poetic ability of nurses.  I only
wonder what my system administrators must think of why a
seventeen year-old technology trainer is getting e-mail about
breastfeeding!

At any rate, I have amassed close to one thousand typewritten
pages of LACNET that my mother has yet to read.  Until she can
get an e-mail account she can check every day, I'll have to
unsubscribe.  It was getting to the point where I'd come home
from work and say, "Hey mom!  Guess what I learned on LACTNET
today!"  Although it was educational, I can't cope with the
volume.  In fact, and I swear and am not kidding, when I sent
my cancellation request, the first message I got back was not a
response, but A LACTNET ISSUE!  A moment later, the response
came back.

Thanks again for a wonderful list that's just a little too
wonderful for me right now!  :)"




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]