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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 March 2013 - Volume 01<br></font></font><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> - </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/</font></a><br>
<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Posting: </font><a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</font></a><br>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)<br> Language Codes: </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</font></a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Administrativia</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Welcome to Lowlands-L in the month of March of 2013!</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Welcome to the persons that joined us since the beginning of February 2013!</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><strong><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">United States of America:</font></strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Missouri:<br> Springfield [1]</font></div></span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Virginia:<br> Chesapeake [1]<br> Henrico [1]</font></div></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Reminder</b>: This discussion forum deals with a number of languages, cultures, etc. It is not possible to limit subscription to certain topics (languages, cultures, etc.)<br>
</font></font></span></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</font></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject headers</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="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:</font></span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Only one topic per message</font></span></b></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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></font></font></span></b></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,51,0)"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></span></b></span></li>
</ul><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">List Mail v Private Mail</font></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rejected Mail</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Language Codes</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</font></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Projects</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please don't forget about our activities:</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Members' Resources (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Resource guide (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Shop (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All of them have growing numbers of visitors.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</font></a><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rules</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="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.)</span></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please consult the rules and guidelines: </font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</font></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another request:</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Membership</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Edit quotes:</font></b></span><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: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.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Give credit:</font></b></span><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: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.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="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.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Change of Address</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font color="#000000" 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></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Temporary Absence</font></b></span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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 color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a><font color="#000000" 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></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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></span></li>
</ul><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" 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>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Co-Founder& Chief Editor</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lowlands-L (</font><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l.net</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)<br>
</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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Send posting submissions to </font></font><a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</font></a><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.<br>
Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.<br> Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to<br></font><a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org</font></a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> or </font><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">lowlands.list@gmail.com</font></a><br>
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