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From: bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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Date: 5 Nov 88 16:34:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)

Once again a thought virus...people's minds are running amuck.

The point of putting books on-line is not to ensure you never read in
bed again, it's to make them accessible to new generations of tools,
for the researchers, writers and curious of the world.

Here's a good one. A long time ago on a list far far away someone
claimed that men could breast feed under certain conditions citing
various second-hand accounts (eg. talks from La Leche League.) The
claim was that if the infant suckled a male breast long enough (I
suppose supplementary feeding is necessary) it would begin to produce
milk. Further, they claimed this was indeed not uncommon in those
apocryphal primitive tribes who are always doing these amazing things.

I had no idea, so I went to the University library to spend a few
hours seeing if I could track down something authoritative on the
subject. Try it, it's nearly impossible (although seemingly too
literal-minded I finally found some references in the Nursing
library.) I didn't quite get satisfaction but it appears to be untrue,
bordering on urban legend (I'd be glad to hear about anything
*authoritative* about it still, something more than you once heard it
was true or read it in a pamphlet somewhere.)

That's the kind of thing on-line libraries should get you, and it's
invaluable.

Let's not extrapolate ad nauseum just to appear to have poked a
hole in an idea.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||

P.S. This is not meant to criticize La Leche, in fact, I doubt they
ever claimed the above, it may have just been one of those things that
"goes around", using their name for seeming authority.