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<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><font color="#000000">Posting: </font><a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Administrativia</font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Welcome to Lowlands-L in the month of March of 2014!</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Welcome to the persons that joined us since the beginning of February 2014!</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Canada</b>:<br> Ontario:</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Windsor [1]<br>
</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Israel</b> (<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black">ישראל</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, <span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL">إسرائيل</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>):<br>
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Central
District (<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black">מחוז
המרכז</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, <span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="color:black">منطقة الوس</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>):</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Rehovot (<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL">רחובות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, <span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL">رحوفوت</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) [1]</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></font><b>Norway</b> (Norge, Noreg, Norga, Norja, Norvejiya):</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Østlandet:</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Oslo [1]<br>
</font></p><p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26834" style="padding:0px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26837"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26836">United States of America</span></b><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26835">:<br>
<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26838"> </span>Georgia:</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></p><p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26841" style="padding:0px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26840"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26839"> </span>Cumming[1]<br></font></span></p><p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26834" style="padding:0px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26838"> </span>Nevada:</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></font></p>
<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26841" style="padding:0px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26840"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393662993390_26839"> </span>Las Vegas [1]</font></span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
<br></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject headers</b></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font 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></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><ul type="disc"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Only one topic per message</b></font></li>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>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></b></font></li>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>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.</b></font></li>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>List Mail v Private Mail</b></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="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>.</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Rejected Mail</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Language Codes</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Projects</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please don't forget about our activities:</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>)</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Travels (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>)</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">History (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/history/</a>)</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Traditions (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">lowlands-l.net/traditions/</span></a>)</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Crypt (<span style="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></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Beyond the Pale (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a>)</font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Members' Resources (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/resources/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/resources/</a>)</font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Resource guide (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/</a>)</font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Shop (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php</a>)</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">All of them have growing numbers of visitors.</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<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 - (<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.</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>REGULAR LIST BUSINESS</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Rules</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<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>
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<font face="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></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Another request:</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Membership</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">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></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">You must always give us your name, given name and family name.</font></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">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></font></p>
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<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">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></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">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></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.</font></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">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></font></p>
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<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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">· <span dir="LTR"></span>Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up, please!</font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">· <span dir="LTR"></span>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></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000"><b>Edit quotes:</b></font> 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 color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000"><b>Give credit:</b></font> 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>
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<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></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Change of Address</b></font></p>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 (<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.</font></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Temporary Absence</b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><ul type="disc"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<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 (<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.</font></li>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><li style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn</font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, 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><br><br></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center">
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