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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject:
Administrativia</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">[Please
do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Dear
Lowlanders,</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Welcome
to Lowlands-L in the month of May of 2012! I wish everyone a happy First of May.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Welcome to the person that joined us since the beginning of April 2012!</p><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<b>Poland</b> (<i>Polska, Polsko, Pòlskô, Польща, Lenkija, Polen</i>):<b><br></b> Lublin Voivodeship (<i>Województwo lubelskie</i>):<br> Lublin (<i><span lang="uk">Люблін</span></i>) [1]<br>
<b>South Africa</b> (<i>Suid-Afrika, iMzantsi Afrika, iNingizimu Afrika, INingizimu Afrika</i>):<b><br></b> Western Cape (<i>Wes-Kaap, Ntshona-Koloni, iKipi LaseNtshonalanga</i>):<br> Cape Town (<span lang="af"><i>Kaapstad, </i></span><span lang="xh"><i>iKapa</i></span>) [1]<br>
<b>United States of America</b>:<b><br></b> Indiana:<br> Columbus [1]<br><br></p></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>SPECIAL
LIST BUSINESS</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Subject
headers</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Some
of you are still not following the subject header rule (see <i>Do not mix
topics</i> under Rules below). Here in brief:<br><br></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><ul style="margin-top:0in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)">Only one topic per message</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)">In responding to an earlier posting, please use the subject line that already
exists for a given thread. <u>Do not change or "tweak" it, not the date and language labels either!</u></span></b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)"><br>
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)">Only if you <u>start</u> a thread
may you <u>suggest</u> your own subject header, but do not insist on your
subject header if I change it.</span></b></li></ul><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>List Mail v Private Mail</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Rejected
Mail</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Language
Codes</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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:</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Projects</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please
don't forget about our activities:</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Traditions (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Crypt (<span style="color:#996633"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/" target="_blank"><span lang="SV">http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/)</span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Members' Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Resource guide (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</a>)</p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Shop (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>)<br>
</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All
of them have growing numbers of visitors.</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">The Anniversary (</span><a style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)" href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">)
presentation calls for particular attention now that we are approaching
our 17th anniversary in April and May. (Can you believe it has been 17
years?!)</span><br>
</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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 - (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>))
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.<br>
</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>REGULAR
LIST BUSINESS</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Rules</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A
few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings. So
here's a quick review:</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:maroon">Do not mix topics.<br>
</span></b><span style="color:maroon">Many of you are still
not following this rule. (Please see my note at the top.)<br></span></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please
consult the rules and guidelines: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another
request:</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Membership</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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!</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Even
some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the following
rules:</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Keep
subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please!</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Sign
off:</b> If you feel like leaving the
List, please do not send the sign-off command to the posting address or to my personal
address.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Change
of Address</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family: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 (<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.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.</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Temporary
Absence</b></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><ul style="margin-top:0in;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">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.</li><li class="MsoNormal">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.</li><li class="MsoNormal">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.</li><li class="MsoNormal">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.</li><li class="MsoNormal">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.</li></ul><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Again,
dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all those
interesting contributions past and future!</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,
Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Co-Founder
& Chief Editor</p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</font><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">Lowlands-L (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net</a>)<br>
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"> <br>
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