<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;">L O W L A N D S - L - 01 January 2008 - Volume 03
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><span></span>
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Administrativia<br><br>[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 the 2008 at Lowlands-L!</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 those of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning
of December! 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. (I said the same in last month's message, and it so happens that I can say it again.)</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;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul><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></ul></div>
<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.
<br><br>I will talk about the supposed song contest in a separate message ...</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;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lowlands-L (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/">lowlands-l.net</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Welcome to those of you who joined us since 1 December 2007!<br><br><b>GERMANY</b> (<i>Deutschland, Düütschland, Dütskland</i>):<br> Lower Saxony (<i>Niedersachsen, Neddersassen</i>):<br> Eastern Friesland (
<i>Oostfreesland</i>):<br> Leer [1]<br><b>HUNGARY</b> (<i>Magyarország</i>):<br> Budapest (<i>Budapesti kistérség</i>):<br> Budapest [1]<br><b>NETHERLANDS</b> (<i>Nederland, Nederlân, Nederlaand
</i>):<br> Fryslân:<br> Akkrum [1]<br><b>SOUTH AFRICA</b>:<br> Mpumalanga:<br> Rietkol [1]<br><b>UNITED KINGDOM</b>:<br> <b>Scotland </b>(<i>Alba, Scotland</i>):<br> Renfrewshire:<br>
Gourock [1]<br><br></span>