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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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>></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject: Administrativia</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!] </span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Lowlanders,</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Welcome to Lowlands-L in February 2010!</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Welcome to those who joined us since the beginning of the year!
They live in the following places:</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Canada</b>:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Alberta:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Lacombe
[1]<br>
<b>France</b> (Vrankryk):<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Île-de-France:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Paris [1]<br>

<b>Germany</b> (Deutschland, Düütschland):<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(Mäkelborg-Vörpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern):<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Garlitz
[1]<br>
<b>Netherlands</b> (Nederland):<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Twente (Tweante):<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Rijssen
(Riessen) [1]<br>
<b>United Kingdom</b>:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>England:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Cumbria:<br>

<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Kendal [1]<b><br>




United States of America</b>:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>California:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Santa Ana
[1]<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Missouri:<br>
<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Springfield
[1]<br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention
to the following:</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">List Mail v Private Mail</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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. For administrative purposes, it's best if
you use <<a href="mailto:lowlands@lowlands-l.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>>.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rejected Mail</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Language Codes</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the subject line of each Lowlands-L issue you find
language codes in square brackets ([]). This indicates 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:</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Projects</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please don't forget about our activities, especially now
that we are approaching our 15th anniversary (!): </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anniversary
(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gallery
(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Travels
(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">History
(<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="FR">Traditions (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</a>)</span></p>



<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="SV">Crypt (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/" target="_blank"><span lang="SV">http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/)</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="SV"></span></p>





<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beyond the
Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Members'
Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Resource
guide (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</a>)</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shop (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>)</span></p>





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<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.</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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. (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>)</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rules</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when
submitting postings. So here's a quick review: </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Do not mix topics.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>

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<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 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Another request: </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Membership</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As most of you know in the meantime, our email addresses are
visible only to subscribers. I hope this will encourage more of you to come
forward and participate in our discussions. </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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!</span></p>

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You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L
wrote:" simply won't do. Several of you are still not getting and doing
this.</span></p>

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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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span></p>

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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></p>

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<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>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't
mix things up, please!</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Edit quotes:</b> 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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Give credit:</b> 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 simply will not do. You must be more
specific, and you owe authors the courtesy of crediting them by name. </span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sign off:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> 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></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<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;"></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.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 and your name.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Temporary Absence</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>

<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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. It certainly beats the old, crude method of signing off and on again.<span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>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 happen
very rarely, have not happened at all for well over two years). 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. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span></span>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.<span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span></span>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.<span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span></span>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></li></ul>





<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and
cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and future! </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Co-Founder & Chief Editor</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a><br>Lowlands-L (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net</a>) </span></p>




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