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11 April 2006 * Volume 05
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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlnds-l.net>
Subject: Administrativia

[PLEASE READ THIS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE NEW ON BOARD!]

Dear Lowlanders,

Welcome to all of you who joined us since the beginning of March! At the end 
of this message is a list of your places of residence. It is nice to see 
renewed presence from Norway. Velkommen! Hyggelig å treffe dykk/dere.

Even though our anniversary project 
(http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/), has been up and running for a 
while now, please bear in mind that this is an ongoing project and requires 
your help, especially now that we are fast approaching the end of our 
eleventh year. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. We've received only 
positive responses from outside the List so far. So, please keep going and 
keep 'em coming, folks! People have been asking why we don't have sound 
files of most of the "major" languages as well (e.g., French, Spanish, 
Italian). Well, let me pass this question on to you. We really and truly 
want more members' introductions
(http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/index.php?page=members).

Some of you still have not gotten the message that "LL-L" or "Lowlands-L" 
MUST appear in the subject lines of all posting submissions. I have all such 
messages automatically routed to a special folder. I do scan the rest of the 
(always voluminous and mostly bogus) mail for stray submissions from 
"incorrigibly naughty Lowlanders," but there is always a chance such 
"unmarked" submissions fall through the cracks and are erased. So, "LL-L" or 
"Lowlands-L" is the only way to make sure your work does not disappear into 
thin air. (Anyway, you should always keep copies, which you could do by 
sending courtesy copies to yourselves.)

As most of you know in the meantime, our email addresses are now visible 
only to subscribers. I hope this will encourage more of you to come forward 
and participate in our discussions.

(1) We send the postings in Unicode (UTF-8) format. You need to switch your 
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simply won't do. SEVERAL OF YOU ARE STILL NOT DOING THIS.

(5) Please continue already existing subject headers (rather than making up 
your own for the same thing). If you do begin a new topic, please make sure 
"Lowlands-L" or "LL-L" is in the subject line as well.

And a "new" one: DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. I 
cannot accept them and will ask you to resubmit them in normal type case. 
Note that, besides being difficult to read, all-caps text breaks Internet 
etiquette rules. It is only used to orthographically represent 
headings/headlines, besides that SHOUTING, YELLING, SCREAMING, etc., and 
beyond that it's perceived as a sign of crying for attention. It's 
considered simply OBNOXIOUS.

Please, folks, read and understand the rules and guidelines! It's really 
important.

Rules and Guidelines: Dutch: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regels
English: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=rules
German: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regeln-de
Limburgish: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regele
Lowlands Saxon (Low German): http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regeln
Russian: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=rules-ru

Many beginners, but also a few older hands, forget to provide their names 
with their posting submission. Please remember that anonymous posting is not 
an option, that you are obligated to give your given and family name, even 
if you do not put them right next to each other.

Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the 
following rules:

(1) Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, 
please.

(2) Stick to the subject title: Do not change the topic name in your 
responses. Just stick with the one we have, even if you think it doesn't 
apply or is silly. I will change it if I think it needs to be.

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response before or after an unedited, complete quoted LL-L issue, please do 
not complain to me that I have removed the quoted text in the published 
version. It is proper email behavior to quote only the portions that are 
relevant to your response.

(4) Give credit: Let us know who the authors of quoted text portions are. If 
you just hit the "reply" button, it will automatically give "Lowlands-L" as 
the author. That will not do. You must be more specific, and you owe authors 
the courtesy of crediting them by name.

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instructions at the top and bottom of each LL-L issue (send the command 
"signoff lowlands-l" to <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>.

ADDRESS CHANGES
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copy to Mathieu <mathieuvw at gmail.com>) giving us the old address and the new 
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(lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net) to let us know the date you want mail to be 
stopped and the date you want mail to be resumed. As some of our members can 
attest, this has been working really well, certainly beats the old, crude 
method of signing off and on again. Once in a while people find themselves 
unsubscribed without notice. Some of them immediately suspect the worst: 
that I have "booted them out" for some infraction or other. (I know this for 
sure only about those that contact me.) Please do not jump to this 
conclusion unless you have received prior reprimands and warnings (which has 
occurred very rarely, not at all for well over one year). If you find 
yourself disconnected from Lowlands-L, the reason is most likely that the 
automated server has unsubscribed your address because of repeated 
"bouncing," i.e., because your mail servers keep informing the list server 
that you cannot be reached or is filled above quota. Most of the time this 
is due to temporary disconnection. Sometimes the reason is that a 
subscriber's junk mail filter (or "spam" filter) has not been "told" to 
exempt Lowlands-L mail, which is why our mailings do not arrive in your 
inboxes. So, if Lowlands-L mail stops coming, please first check your "spam" 
filters and adjust them if necessary, and only contact me about the problem 
if all of the above fails. Should you indeed be disconnected, please write 
to me or resubmit an application 
(http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=subscription). I'll be more than 
happy to bring you swiftly back to the fold.

Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all 
those interesting contributions past and future!

Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
Founder, Administrator & Chief Editor
Lowlands-L http://www.lowlands-l.net

Welcome to those of you who just joined us since March 1, 2006:

   BELGIUM (België/Belgique):
        Antwerp (Antwerpen):
             Essen [1]
   CANADA:
        Quebec (Québec):
             Montreal (Montréal) [1]
   NETHERLANDS (Nederland):
        Limburg:
             Sittard [1]
        Northern Brabant (Noord-Brabant):
             Tilburg [1]
        Northern Holland (Noord-Holland):
             Amstelveen [1]
             Amsterdam [2]
        Southern Holland (Zuid-Holland):
             Leiden [1]
             Voorschoten [1]
             Zoetermeer [1]
        Utrecht:
             Utrecht [1]
   NORWAY (Noreg/Norge):
        Rogaland:
             Stavanger [1]
        Vikna:
             Rørvik [1]
   UKRAINE (Україна):
        Kyiv Oblast' (Київська область):
             Kyiv (Київ) [1]
   UNITED KINGDOM
        Scotland:
             Lothian:
                  Edinburgh [1]
   UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
        California:
             Corona [1]
        Illinois:
             Chillicothe [1]
        Iowa:
             Dike [1]
        North Carolina:
             Charlotte [1]
        Virginia:
             Yorktown [1] 

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