The sender of the email is just being Dutch. Things that sound perfectly normal to us Dutch are actually impolite to most of the rest of the world.
As to verifiable identity, the email did carry an actual name + email address. How much more identity do you want from a first email?
Given that googling for depaineur gives zero hits, and googling for depanneur gives 12700 hits, I conclude that my memory that it is written as depanneur is correct.
This means of course that it has nothing to do with bread, which is a pity, since your explanation was quite creative.
It's even spreading outside the world of computers: I recently got a bill from my cable company, that said "mijn faktuur", which means "my bill". I'm still trying to figure out if they mean it's theirs or mine.
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The sender of the email is just being Dutch. Things that sound perfectly normal to us Dutch are actually impolite to most of the rest of the world. As to verifiable identity, the email did carry an actual name + email address. How much more identity do you want from a first email?
Given that googling for depaineur gives zero hits, and googling for depanneur gives 12700 hits, I conclude that my memory that it is written as depanneur is correct.
This means of course that it has nothing to do with bread, which is a pity, since your explanation was quite creative.
Wired has an interesting article on that. Featuring a blind man driving a car using implants that allow him to see. Absolutely stunning.
It's even spreading outside the world of computers: I recently got a bill from my cable company, that said "mijn faktuur", which means "my bill". I'm still trying to figure out if they mean it's theirs or mine.