<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"> <br>L O W L A N D S - L - 01 April 2007 - Volume 08<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br></font>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Administrativia<br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">
[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</span><br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Can you believe the first quarter of 2007 is behind us already? Well, here's
the beginning of April already. Our 12<sup>th</sup> anniversary celebrations
will begin on April 15 and will end on May 15. (This was roughly the period we
used to get it together twelve years ago.)<br>
<br>
Hopefully our main website </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">lowlands-l.net/</a>) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will be remodeled by then. (Mathieu has been working hard
on it.) Our anniversary site (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>) keeps
growing; a few new prospects are in the works. The number of members exhibiting
stuff in the gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>) rose to a whopping six in
March. Come on now, folks! And, yes, you may "advertise" your sites,
clubs, hobbies and other stuff there (as long as it's not too naughty and
commercial).<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">NEWS FLASH:</span><br></span></font></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I just checked and realized that our Mathieu has indeed finished the remodel: </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">lowlands-l.net/
</a></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Nice job, Mathieu! Thanks!</span></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Folks, note that the top banner and the "Language of the day" vignette randomly change pretty much anytime you enter the site or refresh the page view. (It's our Mathieu's latest bell and whistle.)
</span></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font></div><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Membership:</span>
<br>
Welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of March!
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/rules.php">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a>).<br>
<br>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.<br></span></font></p><ol style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We send the postings in Unicode (UTF-8) format. You need to switch your view
mode to it if you want to see all "special" characters.</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span></font></li><li><font size="2">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you forward Lowlands-L mail to another (alias) account, please give us
the address of that account. We need to identify it so we can do something in
case we get error messages from that server.</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L
wrote:" simply won't do. SEVERAL OF YOU ARE STILL NOT DOING THIS.</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></font></li></ol><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following
rules:<br></span></font></p><ol style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span><font size="2"><b>Keep subjects separate</b>: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things
up, please.</font></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><font size="2"><b>Stick to the subject title</b>: 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.</font></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><font size="2"><b>Edit quotes</b>: If you hit the "reply" button and simply
write your 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.</font></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><b>Give credit</b>: Let us know who the authors of quoted text portions
are.</font></span><br>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.</font></li><li><font size="2"><font size="2"><b>Signing off</b>: If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send
the sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal address. Please follow
the instructions at the top and bottom of each LL-L issue (send the command
"signoff lowlands-l" to [<a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>].</font><br></font></li></ol>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<b>Address Changes</b></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You
do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address changes. It
suffices if you send me (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>) a message giving us the old
address and the new address. If you don't remember under which address you were
first subscribed, it will suffice if you give us only the new address.<br>
<br>
<b>Temporary Absence</b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Before
you take a trip or for some other reason need to stop LL-L mail arriving for a
given length of time, please write to us ([<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>]) 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. But
it happens again and again and involves even the nicest, best-behaved people.)
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. I'll be more than happy to bring
you swiftly back to the fold.<br>
<br>
Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all those
interesting contributions past and future!<br>
<br>
Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn<br>Co-Founder
& Chief Editor</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Welcome
to those of you who just joined us since 1 March 2007!<br><br>
<span style=""> </span><b>Algeria</b>
(Ledzayer, <span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">الجزائر</span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "MS Gothic";" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="ltr"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Tipaza (Bazar, Tefessedt, <span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">تيبازة</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Kolea </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">[1]</span></font><font size="2">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> (<span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">كلية</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>)<br>
<span style=""> </span><b>Argentina</b>:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Mendoza:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Maipú [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><b>Australia</b>:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>New South Wales:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Invergowrie [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><b>Denmark</b>
(Danmark):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Copenhagen
(København) [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><b>France</b>:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Hauts-de-Seine:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Nanterre
[1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><b>United
States of America</b>:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Texas:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Austin
[1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Washington:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Mill Creek [1]</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
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