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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: Administrativia</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Our fourteenth anniversary is over and done with. So onward and upward we go!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a little thing, partly reminder, about commercial references.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In our proceedings we are supposed to refrain from commercial advertising. However, "commercial advertising" is open to interpretation. It has been our convention to permit announcing the availability of relevant resources, not only web resources but also books, software, CDs, videos and such that are for sale. Also, it has been all right to mention where such items can be purchased if they are hard to come by. The only thing I assume all of us do not wish to see is outright advertising in postings.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I suggest we leave it as it is.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, I am thinking of having within our online presentations -- only on select resource pages and as unobtrusively as possible -- some links to online distributors of specific, mostly language-related publications. As most of you know, I have been paying out of my own pocket for all Web-related goods, services and the growing Web space, have purchased software specifically for LL-L projects and have been spending and will further be spending thousands of hours working on our presentations. All this has been </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">pro bono</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> on my part so far. But this has become rather expensive and a personal burden and drain in the meantime. At least a part of it might be offset by means of resource links to certain vendors. This can be as simple as a text link for a book, CD, etc., or a group of these. No, I do not plan on having flashy commercial banners and such flying all over the place.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As I said, this will affect only certain pages dedicated to resources. <br><br><u>There will be no direct commercial links on pages containing Lowlands-L members' works. </u><br>
<br>However, with a member's permission and on that member's pages only there may be links to that member's works offered for sale. As a part of your introduction in the Anniversary project or the Gallery, your publications may be mentioned with or without unobtrusive links to distributors. The same applies to our members' resource guide (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>) where you may unobtrusively advertise your works, companies, services and such, even if they are not directly Lowlands-related. For instance, our dear Irish friend Tomás Ó Cárthaigh might list and link to his books (which he does already), our Dave Singleton might let folks know how they get in touch with him about Northumbrian smallpipes, and our Gabriele Kahn might let folks know that she's in the business of German translation and how to contact her.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Please note and remember that this affects only certain Web pages. <br><br><u>Our correspondence (postings) and archives remain entirely commercial-free as they have been for the past fourteen years.</u></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I count on your understanding and support.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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