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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> - </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Language Codes: </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Administrativia</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Welcome to Lowlands-L in September 2009! </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Welcome to those who joined us since the beginning of August 2009! They live in the following places:</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Canada</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span>Ontario:<br><span> </span>Drayton [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mexico</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (México, Mēxihco):</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span>Federal District (Distrito Federal, Calpōlli Tlahtōlōyān):</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span>Mexico City (Ciudad de México, Āltepētl Mēxihco) [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Netherlands</font></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> (Nederland):<br>
<span> </span>Drenthe:<br><span> </span>Beilen [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sweden</font></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> (Sverige):<br>
<span> </span>Uppland:<br><span> </span>Uppsala [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">United Kingdom</font></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:<br>
<span> </span>England:<br><span> </span>Cumbria:<br><span> </span>Penrith [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">United States of America</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span>Maryland:<br><span> </span>Owings Mills [1]</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention to the following:</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">List Mail vs Private Mail</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Folks, please make sure that you send private messages to me to my private address (</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">), 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. For administrative purposes, it's best if you use <</font><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rejected Mail</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Language Codes</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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 now use the ISO codes where available (and make up the rest). I used to provide the key for the abbreviations in the masthead, but that made for overly large mastheads. Instead, the masthead now contains the URL of the page of the key:</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You do not need to indicate the language varieties of you posting proposals. In the rare event of me not knowing it I will ask you.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Projects</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please don't forget about our activities, especially now that we are approaching our 14th anniversary (!): </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Anniversary (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Gallery (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Travels (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/travels/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">History (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/history/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Traditions (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beyond the Pale (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Members' Resources (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All of them have growing numbers of visitors.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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 or to our administrative address (see above) to propose or ask and also to send your works.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Our resource guide is now here: </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From there you can get to the shops that eventually may (or may not) help to cover some of the cost of running Lowlands-L:</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you want to order books, CDs, DVDs, or pretty much anything else from Amazon you might as well do it via these shops (in Canada, Germany, France, Japan, UK and USA) which have constantly changing Lowlands-related selections. Alternatively use the links below that to do more extensive searches while still affording referral commissions to LL-L.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rules</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So here's a quick review: </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do not mix topics.</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="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.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please consult the rules and guidelines: </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another request: </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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<span> </span>annoying, because I have no idea whose they are, so I can't do anything about it.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Membership</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you wish to leave ("unsubscribe" from) Lowlands-L, please follow the appropriate steps as described below. DO NOT mark Lowlands-L mail as SPAM. If you take this unethical action, it may detrimentally affect the entire list and its subscribers, as well as LINGUIST, our server hosts. Besides, we will be able to tell that it was you that did it and we will consider reporting you. SO DON'T!</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L wrote:" simply won't do. Several of you are still not doing this.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="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. </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following rules: </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="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.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Change of Address</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address changes. It suffices if you send me (</font><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) 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.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Temporary Absence</font></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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 (</font><a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands@lowlands-l.net</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) 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.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and future! </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</font></span></p>
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