<p style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 01 February 2009 - Volume 01<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Please set the encoding mode to Unicode (UTF-8).<br>
If viewing this in a web browser, please click on<br>
the html toggle at the bottom of the archived page <br>
and switch your browser's character encoding to Unicode.</span><br>
===========================================</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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 Lowlands-L in February of the year 2009!<br>
<br>
Welcome to the four of who joined us since the beginning of January 2009!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Australia<i>:<br>
</i></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Queensland:<br>
Brisbane [1]<br>
<b>Belgium </b><i>(België, Belgique, Belgien)</i>:<br>
Antwerp<i> (Antwerpen, Anvers):</i><br>
Hoboken [1]<br>
Namur <i>(Nameur, Namen</i></span><i>, Namouer)</i>:<br>
Andenne [1]</font><br>
<font size="2"><b>Canada</b>:<br>
Ontario:<br>
Burlington [1]<br>
St. Catharines [1]<br><b>Germany</b><i> (Deutschland):</i><br>
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania <br>
(Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mäkelnborg-Vörpommern):<br>
Schwerin (Swerin)
[1]<br><b>Netherlands </b><i>(Nederland, Nederlaand, Nederlân):</i><br>
Groningen <i>(Grunnen, Grinslân)</i>:<br>
Groningen <i>(Grunnen,
Grins)</i> [1]<br><b>United States of America<i>:<br>
</i></b> Illinois:<br>
DeKalb [1]<br><br>
I hope I didn't forget anyone. Please let me know if I did.<br><br>
Please don't forget about our activities, especially now that we are
approaching our 14th anniversary (!): </font>
</p>
<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span></font></li>
<li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span></font></li>
<li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span></font></li>
<li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</span></font></li>
<li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="FR">Traditions
(</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="FR">)</span></font></li>
<li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</span></font></li>
<li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Members' Resources (</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">)</span></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All of them have growing
numbers of visitors.<br>
<br>
If you have anything in mind for any of those presentations but lack confidence
for some reason or other, please bear in mind that assistance is available.
Please write to my private address (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>)
to propose or ask and also to send your works.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>LIST BUSINESS</b></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A few of you are still
making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So here's a quick review:
</span></font></p>
<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Do not mix topics.</span></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></font></li></ul>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please consult the rules and guidelines: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Membership:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></font></p>
<ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" start="1" type="1"><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You must always give us your name, given name and
family name.</span></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS
ONLY.</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></font></li></ol>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the
following rules: </span></font></p>
<ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" start="1" type="1"><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting!
Don't mix things up, please.</span></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><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></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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></span></font></li></ol>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Change of Address: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><font size="2">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>)</font>
</span></p>
•
<p>
==============================END===================================
<p>
* Please submit postings to lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org.
<p>
* Postings will be displayed unedited in digest form.
<p>
* Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
<p>
* Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l")
<p>
are to be sent to listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org or at
<p>
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.
<p>
*********************************************************************