<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 01 August 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Administrativia</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Welcome to August 2007! </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of July! At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Please don't forget about our activities:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> - Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> - Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> - Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> - Lowlands song contest</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
I will say things about them in separate messages as the need arises.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Membership:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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>).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 1. We send the postings in Unicode (UTF-8) format. You need to switch</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> your view mode to it if you want to see all "special" characters.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
2. You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 3. If you forward Lowlands-L mail to another (alias) account, please
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> give us the address of that account. We need to identify it so we can do</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
something in case we get error messages from that server.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 4. You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> wrote:" simply won't do. Several of you are still not doing this.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 5. Please continue already existing subject headers (rather than</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
making up your own for the same thing). If you do begin a new topic, please</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> make sure "Lowlands-L" or "LL-L" is in the subject line as well.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 6. DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following rules:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 1. Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> things up, please.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 2. Stick to the subject title: Do not change the topic name in your
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> responses. Just stick with the one we have, even if you think it doesn't</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> apply or is silly. I will change it if I think it needs to be.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
3. Edit quotes: If you hit the "reply" button and simply write your</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> response before or after an unedited, complete quoted LL-L issue, please do
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> not complain to me that I have removed the quoted text in the published</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
version. It is proper email behavior to quote only the portions that are</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> relevant to your response.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 4. Give credit: Let us know who the authors of quoted text portions</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
are. If you just hit the "reply" button, it will automatically give</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> "Lowlands-L" as the author. That will not do. You must be more specific, and
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> you owe authors the courtesy of crediting them by name.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 5. Signing off: If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> the sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal address.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Address Changes</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Temporary Absence</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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 in-boxes. 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><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and future!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Co-Founder & Chief Editor</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lowlands-L <a href="http://lowlands-l.net">lowlands-l.net
</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">***</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Welcome to those of you who just joined us since 1 July 2007!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
AUSTRALIA</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> South Australia:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Port Augusta [1]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">CANADA:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> British Columbia:</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Mission [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">NETHERLANDS (Nederland, Nederlaand, Nederlân):
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Northern Holland (Noord-Holland):</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Amsterdam [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Hoorn [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
SOUTH AFRICA (Suid-Afrika)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Western Cape (Wes-Kaap):</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Noordhoek [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">SPAIN (España, Espanya, Espainia)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Balearic Islands (Illes Balears, Islas Baleares):</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Majorca (Mallorca):</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Son Servera [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Indiana:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> South Bend [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Iowa:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Des Moines [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Massachusetts:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Stow [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">