<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"> <br>L O W L A N D S - L - 1 May 2007 - Volume 03<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br></font><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" title="Linkification: mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject: Administrativia</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span>
</font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Lowlanders,</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Happy May to everyone!</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We are in the middle of our 12th anniversary month. So please keep the goodies for our presentations coming:<br>
<br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a><br><br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our Ben just submitted his own translation and narration into his language variety, and I posted it:
<br><br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-western2.php">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-western2.php</a></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It's certainly localized, even percussively dramatized! Thanks a lot, Ben!</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Membership:</span></b></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of April! At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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" title="Linkification: http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a>).</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>
</span></span><span dir="ltr"><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></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><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></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><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></span></font>
</pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><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></span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. </span></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following rules:</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Keep subjects separate</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</span></font></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Stick to the subject title</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: 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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Edit quotes</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: 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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Give credit</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: 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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Signing off</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send the sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal address.
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
Address Changes</span></b></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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" title="Linkification: 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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
Temporary Absence</span></b></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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" title="Linkification: 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.
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and future!</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Co-Founder & Chief Editor</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lowlands-L <a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/">http://www.lowlands-l.net
</a></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">***</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
Welcome to those of you who just joined us since 1 April 2007!</span></font></pre>
<h1 style="page-break-after: auto; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Belgium</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> (België, Belgique, Belgien):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Western Flanders (West-Vlaanderen):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Ostend (Oostende) [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Croatia</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> (Hrvatska):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Bjelovar-Bilogora:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Bjelovar [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">France</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Hauts-de-Seine:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Nanterre [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">
(Deutschland):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Saxony (Sachsen, Sakska):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Leipzig (Leipzig, Lipsk) [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Schleswig-Holstein:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Neustadt in Holstein [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Iran</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> (<span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">ايران</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" dir="ltr">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">):</span><br style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Tehran Province (استان تهران):
</span><br style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Tehran [تهران)
[1)</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Italy</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">
(Italia):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Lombardy (Lombardia, Lumbardìa):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Monza (Monza, Munscia) [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Netherlands</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">
(Nederland):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Northern Holland (Noord-Holland):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Hilversum [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">United
Kingdom</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">:<br>
<span style=""> </span>England:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Cambridgeshire:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Cambridge [1]<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">United
States of America</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">:<br>
<span style=""> </span>California:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Temple City [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Indiana:<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Elkhart [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Massachusetts:<br> Boston [1]<br></span></font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
[? North
Carolina, South Carolina, Minnesota ?]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Beaufort [1]</span></font></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span></font></p>