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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Administrativia<br>
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[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] <br>
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Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Welcome to August 2008 at Lowlands-L!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">And welcome to you who joined us since the
beginning of July!<br>
<br>Belgium (<i>België, Belsj, Belsch, Belgien, Beldjike, Belgique</i>)<br> Antwerp (<i>Antwerpen, Anvers</i>) [1]<br>United Kingdom:<br> Scotland (<i>Alba</i>):<br> Aberdeen (<i>Aiberdeen, Obar Dheathain</i>) [1]<br>
United States of America:<br> Kansas:<br> Winfield [1]<br> Maryland:<br> Kensington [1]<br> Wisconsin:<br> Madison [1]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
It is normal for the number of new subscriptions to go down during the Northern Hemisphere warm season, usually starting to pick up again in September or October. Also, some longer-standing members resign and later rejoin, apparently because they still have not understood that that all they need to do is ask me to put their subscriptions on vacation mode, simply give me the dates of the beginning and end of the period and then not worry about it anymore. (Please see below.)<br>
<br>A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So here's a quick review:</span><font size="2"></font>
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<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Do not mix topics.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Stay with the subject line (and don't add stuff to it) when you
respond. It is only when you start a new thread that you may suggest a
subject line.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">When you respond to someone's posting, please only quote the
relevant portion. If you allow an entire issue to dangle as a quote behind
your response I will remove it, even if your response does not make much
sense then.</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Please consult the rules and guidelines: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Another request: <br>
Please inform me if you route LL-L issues to or via email addresses other than those
you subscribed. Right now, once again I am getting failure reports concerning
email addresses that are not subscribed. This is really annoying, because
I have no idea whose they are, so I can't do anything about it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Membership:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Even some people who have been with us for a while
persistently ignore the following rules: </span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix
things up, please.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Address Changes: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><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>
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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>
Please don't forget about our activities: </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>
)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Traditions (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="FR"></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Please ask if you need to know what you can do and
how to do it. Please also remember that help is available.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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 proved
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 style="">
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