>My husband is in law enforcement. In order for him to get on lists such as >lactnet he had to send by slow paper mail copies of identification papers. >Should lactnet consider becoming a restricted access list such as this? I >have no idea how much work this would be. As much as we want our info. to reach >the ends of the earth, it might be worth considering so formula companies can not >get the jump on us. Food for thought. Aarrggh! I just wrote a whole long introduction, and my computer just ate it for a late-night snack! :-/ Well, let me start over. My name is Angie, and I've only subscribed to LactNet for a few days. I would've subscribed a long time ago, but I didn't even know it existed until I heard about it from Kathy Dettwyler, then read about it in the latest issue of Leaven. I've had 2 children, but only 1 is living. My first, Joshua, was born at 33 wks. gest. due to a GBS (Group B Strep) infection. He spent the last 5 weeks of his life on ECMO (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation - basically a heart-lung bypass machine), and he died when he was 6 weeks old. I spent that whole time using a breast pump every 2-3 hours, planning to breastfeed him, but he was never well enough to receive anything other than IV fluids. My second baby, Jacob, was born almost exactly 1 year later, after a very stressful "high risk" pregnancy, but I did manage to go full term this time. I was treated several times for GBS, but he was healthy and breastfed (and still is, almost 3 years later!). Anyway, I'm not a leader or lactation consultant, but I'm aspiring to it, and my reason for writing was to respond to this security issue. I obviously realize the reason for thinking about restricting the list, but this would probably mean that people like me wouldn't be able to be on it. Although I'm not currently counseling nursing mothers, I most likely will be in the future, and this list is a great source of information for me! I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think this is it. Just my opinion... ~Angie~ <----who'll crawl back in her hole and go back to lurking now! :) [log in to unmask] Mommy to Jacob Drew (8/20/92) and Joshua Brett (8/6/91-9/17/91), our little angel baby 0:-)