Pobox’s spam filter bounced something purporting to be from Arturo Fuente <yoichi@t-online.de> – someone with a Spanish name and a Japanese handle, posting from Germany? Not impossible, of course.
(Russell advises me that Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar. Do they grow tobacco in Perú?)
This week I got an inquiry (about hyperbolic tilings) from someone with an Arabic name, writing in impeccable English, beginning “I am an engineering student in Tokyo.”