OK, since we're all being so nicey nice, may I ask you kindly to step off?

Jeroen has posted here before. Yes, it was before "a few weeks ago" --
more like a few months -- and no, I can't find his posting in Google.
But I went to his site then and I went to it when he posted the other
day. I confess I don't speak Danish, so perhaps that's why I'm missing
the purchase information from this "business owner," who has yet to
solicit any "business" here except invite people to look at pictures of
a lot of hosta. Do please be so kind as to show me where on his site I
can place an order, in English, for delivery to the USA.

Yes, his single post last week -- his first in quite some time -- went
to a lot of groups in a lot of languages. It was also on-topic, succinct
and in the proper language for each group. Personally, I've found his
site quite useful as I try to choose something to put in the shady parts
of my yard. And if Anne -- a regular, helpful contributor to
triangle.gardens -- wants to encourage him on or off the group, that is
fine with me.

MAL


MT Byers wrote:
I wasn't going for "rude." Not at all. Seen another way, by the
conventions of usenet, spamming a newgroup *is* rude.

Since I never saw the invitation to which this person refers, it looked
like just another one of those annoying attempts to pander his wares,
though couched in clever, charming words. That is the basis upon which
I made my remark.

If you made such an invitation, I would make a simple request. Would
you consider the possibility that perhaps this newsgroup is not the
place for your correspondence with this business owner? Would you also,
perhaps, consider taking that correspondence off list?

See? I'm not rude. I just make polite requests.

Anne Lurie wrote:

Don't be rude! How do *you* know what encouragement we may have given
Hostavalley in our private emails?

Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh

hostavalley wrote:

Dear garden friends,
Thanks for your kind e-mails a few weeks ago. You ask me to keep in
touch when there's a new update...


No one asked you anything of the kind, but the thought occurs to me:
If I asked you to get lost, would you be as willing to do that?