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Hello Moderator,
May I offer you the following announcement for your group to take advantage of? It outlines a wonderful opportunity for students to go to the museum Friday April 3, and take in the fine art and a band concert geared to please and stimulate our younger community members. Please consider announcing this for your group. If you reject it, maybe just a brief explanation why this is not considered a worthy offering for your group. Thank you.
-Joan
Hi Joan,
This group is for homeschoolers to connect with one another. I regularly get people who kindly want to connect homeschoolers to their excellent goods, services and causes instead, but that's not the purpose of this online forum so I do not post them. You suggest in your message that rejecting this announcement means that I don't consider the event a worthy offering (which insult I am invited to make explicit by condemning it to you in writing!). Some people suggest such things as a way of pressuring others to do their bidding under threat of hurt feelings, but I feel sure that's not the case here. It just didn't occur to you that there might be a completely different explanation for the inaction on my part. Please be assured that I consider this event to be worthy, and I hope it's successful.
Sincerely,
The Moderator
May I offer you the following announcement for your group to take advantage of? It outlines a wonderful opportunity for students to go to the museum Friday April 3, and take in the fine art and a band concert geared to please and stimulate our younger community members. Please consider announcing this for your group. If you reject it, maybe just a brief explanation why this is not considered a worthy offering for your group. Thank you.
-Joan
Hi Joan,
This group is for homeschoolers to connect with one another. I regularly get people who kindly want to connect homeschoolers to their excellent goods, services and causes instead, but that's not the purpose of this online forum so I do not post them. You suggest in your message that rejecting this announcement means that I don't consider the event a worthy offering (which insult I am invited to make explicit by condemning it to you in writing!). Some people suggest such things as a way of pressuring others to do their bidding under threat of hurt feelings, but I feel sure that's not the case here. It just didn't occur to you that there might be a completely different explanation for the inaction on my part. Please be assured that I consider this event to be worthy, and I hope it's successful.
Sincerely,
The Moderator