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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 01 March 2007 - Volume 01<br><br>=========================================================================<br>
<p class="MsoNormal">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" title="Linkification: mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>><br>
Subject: Administrativia<br>
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[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]<br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of February!
At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence. <br>
<br>
Please, folks, read and understand the rules and guidelines! It's really important.
You find them at our main website (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net">lowlands-l.net</a>).<br>
<br>
Our main website is being refurbished, and the unveiling will occur not too
long from now. Mathieu is busy with that, I to a lesser degree. We will try to
use as many of the submitted pictures as possible.<br>
<br>
I will write more about the web pages in a separate message.<br>
<br>
As most of you know in the meantime, our email addresses are now visible<br>
only to subscribers. I hope this will encourage more of you to come forward<br>
and participate in our discussions.<br>
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(1) We send the postings in Unicode (UTF-8) format. You need to switch your<br>
view mode to it if you want to see all "special" characters.<br>
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(2) You must always give us your name, given name and family name.<br>
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(3) If you forward Lowlands-L mail to another (alias) account, please give<br>
us the address of that account. We need to identify it so we can do<br>
something in case we get error messages from that server.<br>
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(4) You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L wrote:"<br>
simply won't do. SEVERAL OF YOU ARE STILL NOT DOING THIS.<br>
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(5) Please continue already existing subject headers (rather than making up<br>
your own for the same thing). If you do begin a new topic, please make sure<br>
"Lowlands-L" or "LL-L" is in the subject line as well.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
Note that, besides being difficult to read, all-caps text breaks Internet<br>
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<br>
considered simply OBNOXIOUS.<br>
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Many beginners, but also a few older hands, forget to provide their names<br>
with their posting submission. Please remember that anonymous posting is not<br>
an option, that you are obligated to give your given and family name, even<br>
if you do not put them right next to each other.<br>
<br>
Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the<br>
following rules:<br>
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(1) <b>Keep subjects separate</b>: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things
up,<br>
please.<br>
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(2) <b>Stick to the subject title</b>: Do not change the topic name in your<br>
responses. Just stick with the one we have, even if you think it doesn't<br>
apply or is silly. I will change it if I think it needs to be.<br>
<br>
(3) <b>Edit quotes</b>: If you hit the "reply" button and simply
write your<br>
response before or after an unedited, complete quoted LL-L issue, please do<br>
not complain to me that I have removed the quoted text in the published<br>
version. It is proper email behavior to quote only the portions that are<br>
relevant to your response.<br>
<br>
(4) <b>Give credit</b>: Let us know who the authors of quoted text portions are.
If<br>
you just hit the "reply" button, it will automatically give "Lowlands-L"
as<br>
the author. That will not do. You must be more specific, and you owe authors<br>
the courtesy of crediting them by name.<br>
<br>
(5) <b>Signing off</b>: If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send
the<br>
sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal address. Please<br>
follow the instructions at the top and bottom of each LL-L issue (send the<br>
command "signoff lowlands-l" to [<a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>].<br>
<br>
<b>Address Changes<br>
</b>You do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address<br>
changes. It suffices if you send me (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>) a message giving us<br>
the old address and the new address. If you don't remember under which<br>
address you were first subscribed, it will suffice if you give us only the<br>
new address.<br>
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<b>Temporary Absence<br>
</b>Before you take a trip or for some other reason need to stop LL-L mail<br>
arriving for a given length of time, please write to us ([log in to unmask])<br>
to let us know the date you want mail to be stopped and the date you want<br>
mail to be resumed. As some of our members can attest, this has been working<br>
really well, certainly beats the old, crude method of signing off and on<br>
again. Once in a while people find themselves unsubscribed without notice.<br>
Some of them immediately suspect the worst: that I have "booted them out"<br>
for some infraction or other. (I know this for sure only about those that<br>
contact me.) Please do not jump to this conclusion unless you have received<br>
prior reprimands and warnings (which has occurred very rarely, not at all<br>
for well over one year). If you find yourself disconnected from Lowlands-L,<br>
the reason is most likely that the automated server has unsubscribed your<br>
address because of repeated "bouncing," i.e., because your mail
servers keep<br>
informing the list server that you cannot be reached or is filled above<br>
quota. Most of the time this is due to temporary disconnection. Sometimes<br>
the reason is that a subscriber's junk mail filter (or "spam" filter)
has<br>
not been "told" to exempt Lowlands-L mail, which is why our mailings
do not<br>
arrive in your inboxes. So, if Lowlands-L mail stops coming, please first<br>
check your "spam" filters and adjust them if necessary, and only
contact me<br>
about the problem if all of the above fails. Should you indeed be<br>
disconnected, please write to me or resubmit an application (<br>
<a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=subscription">http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=subscription</a>). I'll be more than<br>
happy to bring you swiftly back to the fold.<br>
<br>
Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all<br>
those interesting contributions past and future!<br>
<br>
Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn<br>
Co-Founder & Chief Editor<br>
Lowlands-L <a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lowlands-l.net</span></a><br>
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***<br>
Welcome to those of you who just joined us since 1 February 2007!<br>
<br>
<b>Germany (Deutschland):<br>
</b><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Schleswig-Holstein (Sleswig-Holsteen,
Slesvig-Holsten)<br>
<span style=""> </span>Flensburg (Flensborg) [1]<br>
<br>
<b>Netherlands (Nederland):<br>
</b><span style=""> </span>Gelderland:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Wezep [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>South Holland (Zuid-Holland):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Delft [1]<br>
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<b>United States Of America:<br>
</b><span style=""> </span>Idaho:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Pocatello [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Illinois:<br>
<span style=""> </span>German Valley [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Iowa:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Cedar Rapids [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Des Moines [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Maryland:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Owings Mills [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Ohio:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Columbus [1]<br>
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