>It is a sad day when individuals feel compelled to start censoring their >comments to Lactnet for fear of being sued. Or out of fear that a >Lactnet subscriber may take it upon themselves, without permission from >the author, to forward posts to corporation. Is there evidence that the posts in question were passed on to corporations who do not have access to lactnet? We should be careful before we accuse people of "selling out." I remember reading several years ago on lactnet that we must assume that there are members of the corporate community who are subscribers to lactnet. Lactnet is big, something over 2000 subscribers worldwide, and it is impossible and unethical to run background checks on everyone who subscribes. When I first subscribed to lacnet, the welcome note mentioned that we should not post anything on lactnet that we wouldn't want to appear on the front page of the New York Times. That is sage advice about anything that goes out on the email/internet. Once you push the send button, messages can take on a life of their own. Unfortunately, all this together means we have to be careful what we say even on lactnet. I wish I had a good solution to this problem, but I think it is one of the prices we pay for the wonderful benefits we get from such a wide community of experts and supporters. Naomi Bar-Yam *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html