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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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;">Sorry I keep bothering you with the ongoing email problems.</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 wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">In the meantime,
a few of the mailings have arrived in my private mailbox. Others have
not yet arrived, but among them is one to which I already received a
response from one of you. So there appears to be some sort of spotty
back-up situation.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
This may mean one of two things: (1) the server does not distribute
mailings as it should, especially during the past three days or so, or
(2) the problem has nothing to do with the server but is due to
problems in email transmission.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">If
2 is the case I wonder if it has anything to do with the scramble to
get large volumes of messages out of and into Iran, considering
problems related to governmental communication blocks and innovative
ways to circumvent them, considering also the large number (400,00+)
Iranian Americans, especially in Southern California and in other
locations here on the American West Coast, not to mention large numbers
of expatriate Iranians in Europe.</span><br></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In the meantime I (re)established a Lowlands-L email address (<a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</a>) and subscribed it as a control. The two mailings I sent out to the List today were received at this address, not at my Yahoo address.</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;">This may mean that Yahoo is has been one of the problem, if not </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> problem. I wonder if those of you that have Yahoo accounts are having similar problems. This may well be a problem related to the communication scramble and all the back-ups to and from Iran. I heard that Yahoo messaging is one of the prevalent communication methods in this current situation.</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;">It would also help if those of you that have accounts elsewhere told me if they have noticed gaps in the flow of LL-L mailings.</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;">By the way, please feel free to use </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><<a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</a></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> as your administrative contact with the List. In fact, I would prefer this since it would keep apart postings and administrative matters.</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;">Thanks.</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;">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;">
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