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O W L A N D S - L - 01 September 2007 - Volume 01<br>
Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">lowlands-l.net/contest/</span></a>
(- 31 Dec. 2007)<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Administrativia<br>
<br>
[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] <br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Welcome to September 2007! <br>
<br>
And welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of August!
At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence. And welcome
to the first person that joined us in September, from Vancouver, Canada,
whose abode will appear with the next batch.<br>
<br>
Folks, please don't forget about our activities:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">·<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;">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">·<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;">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">·<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;">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">·<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;">Lowlands Song Contest (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">lowlands-l.net/contest/
</span></a>)</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I will say things about them in separate messages as the need arises. <br>
<br>
<b>Membership:</b><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 style="">
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">You must
always give us your name, given name and family name.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">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. <br style="">
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">DO NOT
SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. <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. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Even
some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following
rules: <br style="">
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Keep
subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style=""></span>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.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style=""></span>Edit quotes: 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></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style=""></span>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.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style=""></span>Signing off: 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></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Address
Changes</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><br>
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>
<b><br>
Temporary Absence</b><br>
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 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. <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<br>
Lowlands-L <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">lowlands-l.net </a><br>
<br>
***<br>
Welcome to those of you who just joined us since 1 August 2007!<br>
<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">AUSTRALIA</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Western Australia:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Ellenbrook [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Perth [1]<br>
<b>AUSTRIA</b> (Österreich/Ausztria/Austrija/Avstrija):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Carinthia (Kärnten/Koroška):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Klagenfurt (Klagenfurt/Celôvec)
[1]<br>
<b>DENMARK</b> (Danmark/Dänemark):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Southern Denmark (Syddanmark/Süddänemark):<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Odense (Odense/(Ottensee)) [1]<br>
<b>NETHERLANDS</b> (Nederland/Nederlaand/Nederlân):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Groningen (Groningen/Grönnen/Grinslân)):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Groningen (Groningen/Grönnen/Grins)
[1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Zealand (Zeeland/Zeêland):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Flushing (Vlissingen/Vlissienge)
[1]<br>
<b>SINGAPORE</b> (Singapura/<span lang="JA">新加坡</span></span>/Sin-ka-pho/<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";" lang="TA">சிங்கப்பூர்</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
):<br>
<span style=""> </span>Singapore (Singapura/<span lang="JA">新加坡</span></span>/Sin-ka-pho/<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";" lang="TA">சிங்கப்பூர்</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
) [1]<br>
<b>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</b>:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Florida:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Riverview [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Massachusetts:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Boston [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>New York:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Buffalo [1]<br>
<span style=""> </span>Oregon:<br>
<span style=""> </span>Clackamas [1]</span></font></p>