<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 November 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
=========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>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 November 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 October! 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;">Folks, please don't forget about our activities:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><li>Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</li><li>Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>
)</li><li>Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</li><li>Lowlands Song Contest (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a>)</li></ul><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Membership</span>:</span><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;"><ol style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><li>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.
</li><li>You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</li><li>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.
</li><li>You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L wrote:" simply won't do. Several of you are still not doing this.</li><li>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.
</li><li>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.
<br></li></ol><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;"><ol style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keep subjects separate</span>: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stick to the subject title</span>:
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.
</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edit quotes</span>: 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.
</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Give credit</span>: 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.
</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sign off</span>: If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send the sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal address.</li></ol><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">
Address Changes:</span><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-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Temporary Absence</span><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 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.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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 joined us since 1 October 2007!<br><br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Belgium </span>(België, Belgique, Belgien):<br> Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant):
<br> Dilbeek [1]<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canada</span>:<br> Ontario:<br> Toronto [1]<br> Waterloo [1]<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Germany </span>(Deutschland):
<br> Schleswig-Holstein (Sleswig-Holsteen,<br> Slaswik-Holstiinj, Slesvig-Holsten):<br> Hemdingen [1]<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pakistan </span>(پاکستان):<br> Punjab (پنجاب):<br>
Lahore [1] (لاہور ,لہور) <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Puerto Rico</span>:<br> Mayagüez:<br> San Germán [1]<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">South Africa</span>:<br> Gauteng:
<br> Pretoria [1]<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">United Kingdom</span>:<br> Scotland (Alba):<br> Edinburgh (Embro, Dùn Èideann):<br> Edinburgh (Embro, Dùn Èideann) [1]
<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States of America</span>:<br> Arizona:<br> Tucson [1]<br> California:<br> Santa Ana [1]<br> New York:<br> Buffalo [1]
<br> <br></span>