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   L O W L A N D S - L * 04 October 2005 * Volume 01
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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Administrativia

Dear Lowlanders,


Happy October -- may it mean autumn or spring for you!

Welcome to all of you who joined us since the beginning of September! At the 
end of this message is a list of your places of residence.

Even though our anniversary project 
(http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/), has been up and running for a 
while now, please bear in mind that this is an ongoing project and requires 
your help. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. We've received only 
positive responses from outside the List so far.  So, please keep going and 
keep 'em coming, folks!

Some of you still have not gotten the message that "LL-L" or "Lowlands-L" 
MUST appear in the subject lines of all posting submissions.  I have all 
such messages automatically routed to a special folder.  I do scan the rest 
of the (always voluminous and mostly bogus) mail for stray submissions from 
"incorregibly naughty Lowlanders," but there is always a chance such 
"unmarked" submissions fall through the cracks and are erased.  So, "LL-L" 
or "Lowlands-L" is the only way to make sure your work does not disappear 
into thin air.  (Anyway, you should always keep copies, which you could do 
by sending courtesy copies to yourselves.)

As most of you know in the meantime, our email addresses are now visible
only to subscribers. I hope this will encourage more of you to come forward
and participate in our discussions.

(1) We send the postings in Unicode (UTF-8) format. You need to switch your
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simply won't do.

(5) 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.

And a "new" one: DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. I
cannot accept them and will ask you to resubmit them in normal type case.
Note that, besides being difficult to read, all-caps text breaks Internet
etiquette rules. It is only used to orthographically represent
headings/headlines, besides that SHOUTING, YELLING, SCREAMING, etc., and
beyond that it's perceived as a sign of crying for attention. It's
considered simply OBNOXIOUS.

Please, folks, read and understand the rules and guidelines! It's really
important.

Rules and Guidelines:
Dutch: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regels
English: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=rules
German: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regeln-de
Limburgish: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regele
Lowlands Saxon (Low German): http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=regeln
Russian: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=rules-ru

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.

Even some people who have been with us for a while persistently ignore the
following rules:

(1) Keep subjects separate: Only one topic per posting! Don't mix things up,
please.

(2) 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.

(3) Edit quotes: 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.

(4) Give credit: 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 will not do. You must be more specific, and you owe authors
the courtesy of crediting them by name.

(5) If you feel like leaving the List, please do not send the sign-off
command to the posting address or to my personal address. Please follow the
instructions at the top and bottom of each LL-L issue (send the command
"signoff lowlands-l" to [log in to unmask]).

TEMPORARY ABSENCE
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 ([log in to unmask])
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, certainly beats the old, crude method of signing off and on
again. 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.) Please do not jump to this conclusion unless you have received
prior reprimands and warnings (which has occurred very rarely, not at all
for well over one year). 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. 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 inboxes. 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. Should you indeed be
disconnected, please write to me or resubmit an application
(http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=subscription). I'll be more than
happy to bring you swiftly back to the fold.

Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all
those interesting contributions past and future!

Regards,
Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
Founder & Administrator, Lowlands-L
http://www.lowlands-l.net

***
Places of Residence of New Lowlanders since September 1, 2005:

     Aotearoa/New Zealand:
          Tāmaki-makau-rau/Auckland [1]
     France:
          Alpes-Côte d'azur:
               Nice [1]
          Paris [1]
     Germany (Deutschland):
          Hamburg [1]
          Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen):
               Sehnde [1]
          Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
          (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern):
               Parchim [1]
     Netherlands:
          Gelderland:
               Wageningen [1]
          Groningen:
               Groningen [1]
          Noord-Holland:
               Amsterdam [1]
     United Kingdom:
          England:
               Oxfordshire:
                    Charlbury [1]
     United States of America:
          Illinois:
               Granite City [1]

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