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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 December 2013 -
Volume 01<br>
<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Administrativia</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[Please do read this, especially if you are
new on board!]</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Welcome to Lowlands-L in the month of December
of 2013!</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Welcome to the persons that joined us since
the beginning of November 2013!</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Aust</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ralia</font></b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">:<br>
Tasmania:<br>
West Launceston [1]</font></p>
<div style="border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-bottom-width:1pt;padding:0in">
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 1.2pt;line-height:14.4pt;border:none;padding:0in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">France<span style="font-weight:normal"> (Frànkrich, Vrankryk, Francia, Fraunce, França, Franche,
Frantzia):<br>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal">Île-de-France</span><span style="font-weight:normal">:<br>
Paris [1]</span></font></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 1.2pt;line-height:14.4pt;border:none;padding:0in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">United States of America:<br>
<span style="font-weight:normal"> California:</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
Santa Susana [1]</span></font></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Reminder</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: This discussion forum deals with a number
of languages, cultures, etc. It is not possible to limit subscription to
certain topics (languages, cultures, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Subject headers</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Only one topic per message</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.25pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
List Mail v Private Mail</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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>.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rejected Mail</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Language Codes</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Projects</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please don't forget about our activities:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Anniversary (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Traditions (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Crypt (</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,102,51)"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/" target="_blank"><span lang="SV" style="color:rgb(0,102,204)">http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/)</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Members' Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Resource guide (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shop (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All of them have growing numbers of
visitors.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rules</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A few of you are still making three basic
mistakes when submitting postings. So here's a quick review:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:maroon">Do not mix topics.<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:maroon">Many
of you are still not following this rule. (Please see my note at the top.)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please consult the rules and guidelines: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rules.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/rules.php</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Another request:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Membership</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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!</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Even some people who have been with us for
a while persistently ignore the following rules:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per
posting! Don't mix things up, please!</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sign off:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Change of Address</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Temporary Absence</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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
(<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 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,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.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your
support and cooperation and for all those interesting contributions past and
future!</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Co-Founder& Chief
Editor<br>
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></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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