Karl, <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Karl F. Larsen <<a href="mailto:klarsen1@gmail.com">klarsen1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> There is a child that lives in France that is capable of doing things that irritate people. The guys email address is <a href="mailto:vincent.perie@myoffice.mobistar.be">vincent.perie@myoffice.mobistar.be</a> and every time I send a message to this list he sends this French cuss phrase to me: Je suis actuellement absent du bureau aussi !!!! TEST !!!!! I often wonder what rock these kind of people were born under. I recall that last Century the USA with British support saved France from becoming a German state twice. </blockquote><div> 1) Don't think that one person defines a country. By behaving like that you are not doing yourself a favor. 2) Learn your ISO domain names properly, it's like geography... .BE isn't French, it's Belgium. 3) You are calling him a child without knowing his age. He is mostlikely NOT a child given the "myoffice" part of the address. If I were to make an assumption from that part of the address, he's an adult using office services of the Belgium Mobistar operator. 4) It's not a cuss phrase (just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's aggressive)... it's a vacation message which states "I am currently absent from the office as well"... Which confirms point 3... not a child, but an adult. So you think the guy is a French child. You make a fool of yourself by insulting a whole nation... and double that foolishness by insulting the wrong nation... and tripple it by making unjustified assumptions on the man's age. Finally, you fail to recognize a vacation message. Methinks you deserve the stupidity award for the day. Gilles (and yes, *I* am French, but you can't figure that out from my domain name). </div></div>-- Gilles Gravier - Gilles@Gravier.org Using Google Apps web mail