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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">============================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 01 September 2008 - Volume 01<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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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 September 2008 at Lowlands-L!<br><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I am thinking of our Lowlanders in storm-ravaged
Louisiana and hope that they are safe and being well taken care off, also that their
property sustains little, if any, damage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Best wishes go out to our Muslim friends
for whom the Holy Month of Ramadan began last night.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">And welcome to you who joined or rejoined
us since the beginning of August!<br>
<br>
United States of America:<br>
Kansas:<br>
Overland
Park [1]<br>
Michigan:<br>
Birmingham
[1]<br>
<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Tennessee:<br>
Clarksville [1] <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></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></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>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" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">A few of you are still making three
basic mistakes when submitting postings. So here's a quick review: </span></p>
<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;"><br>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;"><br>Another request: <br>
<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;"><br>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;"><br>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" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>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>
<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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><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 from where you are, 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>)</span></p>
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