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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 March 2007 - Volume 01

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Administrativia

[Please do read this, especially if you are new on board!]

Dear Lowlanders,

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

Please, folks, read and understand the rules and guidelines! It's really
important. You find them at our main website (lowlands-l.net).

Our main website is being refurbished, and the unveiling will occur not too
long from now. Mathieu is busy with that, I to a lesser degree. We will try
to use as many of the submitted pictures as possible.

I will write more about the web pages in a separate message.

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. SEVERAL OF YOU ARE STILL NOT DOING THIS.

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"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.

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:

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up,
please.

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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.

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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) *Signing off*: 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 [lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org].

*Address Changes
*You do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address
changes. It suffices if you send me (sassisch at yahoo.com) 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.

*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
Co-Founder & Chief Editor
Lowlands-L http://www.lowlands-l.net

***
Welcome to those of you who just joined us since 1 February 2007!

*Germany (Deutschland):
*     Schleswig-Holstein (Sleswig-Holsteen, Slesvig-Holsten)
          Flensburg (Flensborg) [1]

*Netherlands (Nederland):
*     Gelderland:
          Wezep [1]
     South Holland (Zuid-Holland):
          Delft [1]

*United States Of America:
*     Idaho:
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     Illinois:
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     Iowa:
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