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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We recently received the following request:

>      Hello,
>
> My name is Raja Chadra. I'm a high school student and live in San
> Diego, California. I don't have my own phone. I grew up with my
mother who is American but my father was born in India. I don't know
much about that part of my background and about a year ago I started
> reading up on the Web. I joined the IndianCiv List but then it
closed so I joined here too. I don't have a blog but i think I'll
start one soon.;
>
> Raja

A request for information was szent to the reply-to address, which
was sudha900@gmail.com (raja.chadra)

The reply came with four question marks on the subject line, but the
reply came from Steve Farmer (not from raja.chadra). We reproduce
the exchange in full.

[ quote] ----- Original Message -----

From: Steve Farmer

To: RAVI

Cc: Steve Farmer

Sent: 25 March 2006 Saturday 22:47

Subject: ????

Who are you?? Why was this note copied to my email address? I don't
know any Raja Chadra or ravi7640 am certainly not a member of the
HinduCivilization List.

If someone has hijacked my address -- this wouldn't be the first
time
-- I need information on this. [unquote]


This was time-stamped: 22:47 hrs.

On the same day, March 10, 2006, this address also enrolled (via the
web) on the now hibernating IC list.

After this email from Steve Farmer on 25 March 2006, Raja.Chadra
(sudha900@gmail.com) chose to unsubscribe from the HC list.  This
occurred at 23:50 hrs. on 25 March 2006

<b>The IP address of sudha900@gmail.com (Raja.Chadra) is the same as
that on the message from Received: from www.safarmer.com
[216.173.242.175] (EHLO safarmer.com)</b>

If someone has emails received directly from Dr. Farmer, please let
us know the IP addresses from which they originated, to test the
veracity of Dr. Farmer's complaint that someone is misusing his
name.

Of course, we take all instances of identity theft and falsehoods
seriously. Thank you. 
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