LL-L "Administrativia" 2009.08.01 (01) [EN]

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L O W L A N D S - L - 01 August 2009 - Volume 01
lowlands at lowlands-l.net - http://lowlands-l.net/
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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 Lowlands-L in August 2009!

Welcome to those who joined us since the beginning of July 2009! They live
in the following places:

Germany (Deutschland, DÃ¼Ã¼tschland):
     Berlin [1]
Mexico (MÃ©xico, MÄ“xihco):
     Federal District (Distrito Federal, CalpÅlli TlahtÅlÅyÄn):
          Mexico City (Ciudad de MÃ©xico, Ä€ltepÄ“tl MÄ“xihco) [1]
United Kingdom (Unitit Kinrick, An RÃ¬oghachd Aonaichte):
     Scotland (Alba):
          South Lanarkshire (Sooth Lanrickshire, Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas):
               East Kilbride (Cille BhrÃ¬ghde an Ear) [1]
United States of America:
     California:
          South San Francisco [1]
     Florida:
          Winterpark [1]
     Michigan:
          Livonia [1]

Before the usual list business I need to draw your attention to the
following:

*SPECIAL LIST BUSINESS*

*
List Mail vs Private Mail
*Folks, please make sure that you send private messages to me to my private
address (sassisch at yahoo.com
<%3Ca%20href=><http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0906a%26L%3DLOWLANDS-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D39605%26B%3D--000e0cd32e0ac09bbd046b4e94bd%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8>),
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 <lowlands at lowlands-l.net>.

*Rejected Mail
*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.

*Language Codes
*In the subject line of each Lowlands-L issue you find language codes in
square brackets ( [ ] ). This indicate 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:

lowlands-l.net/codes.php

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.
*
Projects
*Please don't forget about our activities, especially now that we are
approaching our 14th anniversary (!):

   - Anniversary (lowlands-l.net/anniversary/)
   - Gallery (lowlands-l.net/gallery/)
   - Travels (lowlands-l.net/travels/)
   - History (lowlands-l.net/history/ <http://lowlands-l.net/travels/>)
   - Traditions (lowlands-l.net/traditions/<http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/>
   )
   - Beyond the Pale
(lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/<http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/>
   )
   - Members' Resources (http://lowlands-l.net/resources/)

All of them have growing numbers of visitors.

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.

(I am very happy this morning because someone sent me a Greenlandic
translation of the wren story from Greenland! I will post it later.)

Our resource guide is now here: http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/

>From there you can get to the shops that eventually may (or may not) help to
cover some of the cost of running Lowlands-L:
http://lowlands-l.net/rummage/shops.php

If you want to order books, CDs, DVDs, or pretty much anything else from
Amazon you might as well do it via these shops (in Canada, Germany, France,
Japan, UK and USA) which have constantly changing Lowlands-related
selections. Alternatively use the links below that to do more extensive
searches while still affording referral commissions to LL-L.

*
REGULAR LIST BUSINESS*

*Rules*
A few of you are still making three basic mistakes when submitting postings.
So here's a quick review:

   - Do not mix topics.
   - 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.
   - 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.

*
Change of Address*
You do no longer need to sign off and on again if your email address
changes. It suffices if you send me ( <%3Ca%20href=>lowlands at lowlands-l.net)
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.%3Ca%20href=>
lowlands at lowlands-l.net) 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.

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
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