Stupid French troublemaker

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> wrote:
> Karl,
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>    There is a child that lives in France that is capable of doing
>> things that irritate people. The guys email address is
>> vincent.perie at myoffice.mobistar.be 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 !!!!<br><br>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.
>
>
> 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).
> --
> Gilles Gravier - Gilles at Gravier.org
> Using Google Apps web mail
>

I suggest you read the message headers:

Return-Path: <vincent.perie-oatpri at myoffice.mobistar.be>
Received: from smtp.meplus-qf.info (ip-pub-02.meplus-qf.info [80.12.215.82])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d6si7503451fga.17.2009.05.02.10.46.51;
        Sat, 02 May 2009 10:46:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from meplus-qf.info (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by mwinf9211.myorangeoffice.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4B17E1C00097
	for <me>; Sat,  2 May 2009 19:46:51 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from wwinf9205.imr.francetelecom.fr (unknown [192.168.92.253])
	by mwinf9211.myorangeoffice.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 43DD91C00094
Message-ID: <26692894.5241241286411261.JavaMail.root at wwinf9205.imr.francetelecom.fr>

His return path is set to .be, the messages appear to be coming from
France. Try to reply and the mail server responds that the user is
unknown.