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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 March 2009 - Volume 01<br>
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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 Lowlands-L in March of the year 2009!<br>
<br>
Ten people came on board since the beginning of February. Please find their
places of residence listed at the end of this.<br>
<br>
Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention to the following:<br>
<br>
<b>SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS<br>
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</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">List Mail vs Private Mail<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Folks, please make sure that you send private messages to me to my private address (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>), especially if they could be taken as responses to what has been said in the forum. If you do not make this distinction it could happen that your private message ends up posted to the List.<br>
<br></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Rejected Mail<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Once in a while
subscribers tell me that they receive List mail but that their posting
submissions keep being rejected. In most cases, when I investigate this it
turns out that a given subscriber has List mail forwarded from his or her subscribed
e-mail address to another e-mail address, and, forgetting this, they try to
send posting submissions from the address at which they read the mail. The list
server rejects mail from that address because it is not subscribed. Also, some
people try to unsubscribe or change their subscription configurations from
addresses that are not subscribed. The simple solution is to address the list
server only from the subscribed e-mail address.<br>
<br>
<b>Language Codes<br>
</b>In the subject line of each Lowlands-L issue you find language codes in
square brackets ( [ ] ). This indicate which language or languages are used in
that issue. I used to provide the key for the abbreviations in the masthead,
but that made for overly large mastheads. Here is the key. Please keep a copy
of it if you think you can not remember it.<br>
<b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[A]</span></b> Afrikaans, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[B]</span></b> Brabantish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[D]</span></b>
Dutch, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[E]</span></b> English, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[F]</span></b> Frisian, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[L]</span></b>
Limburgish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[LS]</span></b> Low Saxon (Low
German), <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[N]</span></b> Northumbrian, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[S]</span></b> Scots, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[Sh]</span></b>
Shetlandic, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[V]</span></b> (West) Flemish, <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">[Z]</span></b> Zealandic. These are Lowlands
languages or dialect groups. The names of other languages appear written out in
English.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
<b>Projects<br>
</b>Please don't forget about our activities, especially now that we are
approaching our 14th anniversary (!): </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li><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><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><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><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><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 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><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><li>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Members' Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">All of them have growing numbers of visitors.<br>
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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></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
<b>Rules</b><br>
A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So
here's a quick review: </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Do not mix topics.</span></li><li><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><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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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.<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Membership<br>
</span></b><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 style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li><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><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You must always give us your
name, given name and family name.</span></li><li><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><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><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><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS
IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span></li><li><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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><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 style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li><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><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><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><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><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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Change of Address</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. <br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><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>
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>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">_____<br>
Welcome to the four of who joined us since the beginning of February 2009! They
live in the following places:<br>
<br>
<b>Costa Rica</b>:<br>
San José:<br>
San Antonio de Guadalupe
[1]<br>
<b>Denmark</b> (Danmark):<br>
Capital (Hovedstaden):<br>
Copenhagen (København):
[1]<br>
<b>Germany</b> (Deutschland, Düütschland):<br>
Hamburg (Hamborg):<br>
Hamburg (Hamborg) [1]<br>
Rissen [1]<br>
Lower Saxony (Neddersassen, Niedersachsen):<br>
Hanover (Hannover) [1]<br>
<b>Ireland</b> (Éire):<br>
Roscommon (Ros Comáin):<br>
Ballaghaderreen (Bealach
an Doirín) [1]<br>
<b>South Africa</b> (Suid-Afrika, UMzantsi Afrika):<br>
Western Cape (Wes-Kaap, IPhondo yaNtshona-Koloni):<br>
Oudtshoorn (eTsoreni)
[1]<br>
<b>United Kingdom</b>:<br>
Cornwall (Kernow):<br>
Camborne (Cambron) [1] <br>
<b>United States of America</b>:<br>
Florida:<br>
Tampa [1]<br>
Wisconsin:<br>
Madison [1]</span></p>
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