No, it's not just funny vowels. The reason they look that way is you're viewing them on a system that doesn't have a font in the iso-8859-8 character set installed. You're seeing it as if the character set was iso-8859-1, the Western European character set. If you view it on a system with the iso-8859-8 character set font installed properly, you'll see that it's my name in Hebrew. Assuming you have a MIME-smart mail reader, this picture should show you what reading your message looks like on my screen:<nl>
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