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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> <br>
Subject: Administrativia<br>
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[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] <br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Happy First of May and welcome to Lowlands-L in May of the year 2009! The first
two weeks of this month constitute the second half of our 14th anniversary month.<br>
<br>
Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention to the following:<br>
<br>
<b>SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">List Mail vs Private Mail<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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>
<b>Rejected Mail<br>
</b>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>
<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. <br>
<br>
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; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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="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>)<br>
April 15 will be the beginning of our 14th anniversary month,
so you might want to pay some extra attention this particular
presentation.</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>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</span></li><li><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></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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;">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; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Do not mix topics.</span></li><li><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></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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 reallyÂ
annoying, because I have no idea whose they are, so I can't do anything about
it.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Membership<br>
</span></b><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></p>
<ol style="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="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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="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 style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><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>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>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 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">_____<br>
<br>Welcome to those who joined us since the beginning of April 2009! They live in
the following places:<b><br><br>The Netherlands</b> (Nederland):<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Northern Holland (Noord-Holland):<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Amsterdam
[1]<br>
<b>South Africa</b> (Suid-Afrika):<b><br>
</b><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Gauteng:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Johannesburg
[1]<br>
<b>Spain</b> (España):<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Albacete:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Albacete
[1]<br>
<b>Turkey</b> (Türkiye):<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Istanbul (Ä°stanbul):<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Istanbul
(Ä°stanbul) [1]<br>
<b>United Kingdom</b>:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>England:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Lancashire:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Parbold, Wiggin [1]<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Northumberland:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Blyth [1]<br>
<b>United States of America</b>:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Maryland:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Rockville
[1]<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Pennsylvania:<br>
<span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span><span>Â </span>Philadelphia
[1]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
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