<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: Administrativia</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to December 2007, a month full of celebrations, beginning with the First Advent (Dec. 2) and ending with New Year's Eve
a.k.a. Hogmanay a.k.a. Sandy Fleming Day (shshsh! his birthday! Dec. 31).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
And welcome to all of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of November! At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence. Hi and welcome to our newcomer from Brazil today! Your place will be mentioned with the December list. And apologies to Rick Denker whom I failed to welcome when he recently sent us his first posting.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Folks, please don't forget about our activities:</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">• Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">
lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)<br>• Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a> )<br>• Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)<br>• Lowlands Song Contest (
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a>)<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I will say things about them in separate messages as the need arises. Let me just emphasize that you we running out of time as far as the song contest is concerned.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Membership:</b><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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.</li><li>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.
</li></ol><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following rules:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<li>Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</li><li>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.
</li><li>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.
</li><li>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.
</li><li>Sign 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.</li></ol><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Address Changes:
</b><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Temporary Absence</b><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And remember: <br>No matter where you are (from), here you are considered Lowlanders until proven innocent!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Co-Founder & Chief Editor</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Welcome to those of you who joined us since 1 November 2007!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Belgium </b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(België, Belgique, Belgien):</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Namur:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ardenne [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Canada</b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ontario:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Waterloo [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Netherlands </b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
(Nederland, Nederlaand, Nederlân):</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Drenthe:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Emmen [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">United States of America</b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mississippi:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Mendenhall [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> North Carolina:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Asheville [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ohio:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Athens [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pennsylvania:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Honesdale [1]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">