Even more oddly, it showed up as <lj user="kestral"> in the notification email despite being "genet" here. And when I try to go to http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=kestral I get genet's userinfo page instead. Something cross-linked in the LJ database perhaps?
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marnanel@pinkstuff:~$ wget -S http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=kestral
--23:39:49-- http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=kestral
=> `userinfo.bml?user=kestral'
Resolving www.livejournal.com... done.
Connecting to www.livejournal.com[66.150.15.150]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.1 302 Found
2 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:43:42 GMT
3 Server: Apache
4 Location: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=genet
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