How all occasions do conspire against me!
Rejected!
I would like to thank you for submitting an abstract to the rhetoric panel of the 2007 conference of the [Name Deleted to Protect the Innocent].
The year’s pool of abstracts was large and extremely competitive. Your submission was strong, but the committee had the difficult task of selecting only four panelists in the end. I am sorry to inform you at this time that your abstract was not selected.
Again, I would like to thank you for your submission.
At least it was polite.
