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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 June 2008 - 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 June 2008 at Lowlands-L! June already?! Can you believe it?
And welcome to you who joined us since the beginning of May! There is only
one of you. *Ahoj a vitajte!*
*Slovakia* (*Slovensko*):
Bratislava [1]
It is normal for the number of new subscriptions to go down during the
Northern Hemisphere warm season, usually starting to pick up again in
September or October. Also, some longer-standing members resign and later
rejoin, apparently because they still have not understood that that all they
need to do is ask me to put their subscriptions on vacation mode, simply
give me the dates of the beginning and end of the period and then not worry
about it anymore. (Please see below.)
A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings.
So here's a quick review:
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Do not mix topics.
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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.
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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.
Please consult the rules and guidelines: lowlands-l.net/rules.php
Another request:
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.
*Membership:*
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 view mode to it if you want to see all "special" characters.
2. You must always give us your name, given name and family name.
3. 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.
4. You must credit the writers of anything you quote. "Lowlands-L wrote:"
simply won't do. Several of you are still not doing this.
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.
6. DO NOT SEND POSTING SUBMISSIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY.
7. 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. Sign 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.
*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 (
lowlands.list at gmail.com) 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. 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
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 in-boxes. 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. I'll
be more than happy to bring you swiftly back to the fold.
Please don't forget about our activities:
- Anniversary (lowlands-l.net/anniversary/)
- Gallery (lowlands-l.net/gallery/ )
- Travels (lowlands-l.net/travels/)
- Beyond the Pale
(lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/<http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/>
)
Please ask if you need to know what you can do and how to do it. Please also
remember that help is available.
Again, dear Lowlanders, thanks for your support and cooperation and for all
those interesting contributions past and future!
And remember:
No matter where you are (from), here you are considered Lowlanders until
proved innocent!
Regards, Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
Co-Founder & Chief Editor
sassisch at yahoo.com
Lowlands-L (lowlands-l.net)
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