Quote - my technique, which may not work for others, is to
uncheck the "notification box",

That's what I do too, but it's a "least worst" dodge not an ideal solution.

I want to receive ebots, mainly for archival purposes. Renderosity now prevents this (unless I'm willing to spend hours sorting through zillions of ebots after just a night and a day - which I'm not!).

The current ebot set-up is so obviously wrong that no-one can seriously think it's OK. That does lead one to speculate that for some reason it can't be changed rather than won't be. Perhaps there is some technical limitation in the Bondware solution, or maybe it's part of Bondware's need to have a proprietry, commercial version of PHP...