<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">=====================================================</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> L O W L A N D S - L - 01 August 2011 - Volume 01</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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</font><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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Posting: </font><a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Archive: </font><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><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><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject:
Administrativia</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[Please
do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear
Lowlanders,</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Welcome
to Lowlands-L in August of 2011!</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> "</font><span lang="ar"><span>رمضان مبارك</span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">" to the Muslims among you!<br>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">First
of all, welcome to those of you that joined us since the beginning of the July
2011!</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>The Netherlands</b> (Nederland):<br> Northern Holland (Noord-Holland):<br> Huizen [1]<br></font><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">United Kingdom</font></b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
England:<br> Bristol:<br> Bristol [1]<br> Wales (Cymru):<br> Gwynedd:<br> Bangor [1]</font><br><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">United States of America</font></b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Washington:</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Bellingham [1]</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPECIAL
LIST BUSINESS</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject
headers</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Some
of you are still not following the subject header rule (see </font><i><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do not mix
topics</font></i><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> under Rules below). Here in brief:</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153, 51, 0)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Only one topic per message</font></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153, 51, 0)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In responding to an earlier posting, please use the subject line that already
exists for a given thread. </font><u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do not change or "tweak" it, not the date and language labels either!</font></u></span></b><span style="color:rgb(153, 51, 0)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153, 51, 0)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Only if you </font><u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">start</font></u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> a thread
may you </font><u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">suggest</font></u><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> your own subject header, but do not insist on your
subject header if I change it.</font></span></b></li></ul><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">List Mail v Private Mail</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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.list@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rejected
Mail</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Language
Codes</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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:</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</font></a></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Projects</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please
don't forget about our activities:</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Traditions (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</font></span></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Crypt (</font><span style="color:#996633"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/" target="_blank"><span lang="SV"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/)</font></span></a></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><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></p>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Resource guide (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></p>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Shop (</font><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><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All
of them have growing numbers of visitors.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If
you want to order books, CDs, DVDs, or pretty much anything else from Amazon (in the US even groceries!)
you might as well do so via our Lowlands-L shops (so far in Canada,
Germany, France, Japan,
UK and USA - (</font><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><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">))
which have constantly changing
Lowlands-related selections. We (i.e. Lowlands-L) get a small percentage
of Amazon sales if you enter Amazon through these portals. Believe me:
it hardly pays a tiny fraction of the money I pay out of my own pocket
to bringing Lowlands-L to you, and I am not even counting the hours of
work I put into it.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">REGULAR
LIST BUSINESS</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rules</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="color:maroon"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do not mix topics.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font></span></b><span style="color:maroon"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Many of you are still
not following this rule. (Please see my note at the top.)</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another
request:</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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 annoying, because I
have no idea whose they are, so I can't do anything about it.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Membership</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><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 getting and doing
this.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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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.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Even
some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following
rules:</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Keep
subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please!</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Edit quotes:</font></b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Give credit:</font></b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 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.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sign
off:</font></b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Change
of Address</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</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 and your name.</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Temporary
Absence</font></b></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><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.list@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</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. It certainly beats the old, crude method of signing
off and on again.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal"><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.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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></li></ul><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><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></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,
Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Co-Founder
& Chief Editor</font></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lowlands-L (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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