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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">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 March 2008 at Lowlands-L! <br><br>Our 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary will begin in one and a half months. What
will <i>you</i> do to help celebrate it?<br><br>Before I get into our usual business I would like to extend, on behalf of everyone, friendly New Year's greetings to our Chinese friends.
Furthermore, to those of you and to your loved ones on the Chinese
mainland I send best wishes under the currently very trying
circumstances. May you be able to celebrate the holidays with your
families in safety, warmth and happiness!<br>
<br>
Please don't forget about our activities: </span>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a> )</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And welcome to those of you who joined or rejoined us since the beginning of January!
At the end of this message is a list of your places of residence.<br>
<br>
I was very pleased to see a couple of you participate in our exchanges already.<br>
<br>
<b>Membership:</b><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" target="_blank">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. </span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" start="1" type="1"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You must always
give us your name, given name and family name.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.
</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DO NOT SEND
POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li></ol>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the
following rules: </span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" start="1" type="1"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Keep subjects
separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></li></ol>
<b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Address Changes: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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" target="_blank">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>
<br>
<b>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" target="_blank">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.<br>
<br>
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>
And remember: <br>
No matter where you are (from), here you are considered Lowlanders until proven
innocent! <br>
<br>
Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn<br>
Co-Founder & Chief Editor<br>
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><br>
Lowlands-L (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net</a>)<br>
<br>
***<br></span>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Welcome
to those of you who joined us since 1 February 2008!</span></p>
<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Belgium</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b> </b>(<i>België</i>, <i>Belgique</i>,
<i>Belgien</i>):</span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Antwerp</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (<i>Antwerpen</i>):</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Berchem [1]</span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Canada</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ontario</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Palmerston [1]</span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL"><b>Netherlands </b>(<i>Nederland</i>):</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Overijssel (<i>Oaveriessel</i>):</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Zwolle [1]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">South
Africa</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (<i>Aferika Borwa</i>, <i>Afurika
Tshipembe</i>, <i>Ningizimu Afrika</i>, <i>Suid-Afrika, UMzantsi Afrika</i>):</span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Western
Cape</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (<i>Wes-Kaap</i>, <i>iKipi
Lasentshonalanga</i>):</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Cape Town (<i>Kaapstad</i>, <i>iKapa)</i> [1]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
</ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL"><b>Sweden </b>(<i>Sverige</i>):</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Östergötland:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Linköping [1]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Stockholm Municipality (<i>Stockholms kommun</i>):</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></li>
<ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bromma [1]</span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="DE"><b>Switzerland </b>(<i>Schweiz</i>, <i>Suisse</i>, <i>Svizzera</i>, <i>Svizra</i>):</span></li>
<ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Zurich (<i>Z<span lang="ZH-CN">ü</span>rich</i>, <i>Z<span lang="ZH-CN">ü</span>ri</i>):</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Zurich (<i>Z<span lang="ZH-CN">ü</span>rich</i>, <i>Z<span lang="ZH-CN">ü</span>ri</i>) [1]</span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">United Kingdom</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li>
<ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scotland</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b> </b>(<i>Alba</i>):</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aberdeenshire </span>(<i>Aiberdeenshire</i>,
<i>Siorrachd Obar Dheathain</i>) [1]</li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aberdeen</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (<i>Aiberdeen</i>,
<i>Obar Dheathain</i>) [1]</span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Edinburgh (<i>Edinburrie</i>,
<i>D<span lang="ZH-CN">ù</span>n Èideann</i>) [1]</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scottish Borders
(<i>T</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he Mairches</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) [1]</span></li></ul></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>United State of America</b>:</span></li>
<ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Georgia</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Stone Mountain</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> [1]</span></li>
</ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">New Jersey</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">West
Cape May</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> [1]</span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">New York</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></li><ul type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">White Plains</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> [1]</span></li></ul></ul></ul>