Quote - basically i had likened it to phone tapping, if you were to tap someone's phone you could either pay the operator (server) or tap the receiver's phone (user) both good ways to get caught out, but if you were to tap in on any of the telegraph poles (routers) along the way in between the operator and the receiver, then there is a lot less chance that you would be discovered.

now, i would guess that Rendo' is only able to check for trojans/viruses and the like at their server, and maybe as far as up to the first point at which the cables are re-routed, after that i would guess that they can't find out anything for you, as i wouldn't think they can scan or check any further.

so i think it is very unfair to be aiming all this at Rendo', as i don't see how they can do anything to help.

Then why is it that  email addresses entered at sites such as Daz and Poser Pros aren't getting spam?

I'm serious when I tell you that I asked about the spam problem to Renderosity specific email addresses  and I was told by staff that the problem started when Renderosity did something to their mail servers to increase the amount of mail that they can send.

Prior to January 2007 I was using an old hotmail address that I call my "spam account" and it's the email address that I use to enter at sites that require an email address to join. I get about 2 dozen spam to that email address everyday, but it's also an email address that I only access from the web and not my outlook express. TBH because I was using an email address that I get loads of spam to, I didn't know that some of the spam I was getting was as a result of having my address listed in my profile here.

In January I took a position as a co-ordinator and was given an @renderosity.com email address to use so that when I had to email people I wasn't giving out my own private email address.  That @renderosity.com email was only here, and I only used it for Renderosity business and for no other purpose. I never shared the email address with anyone outside of Renderosity. Emails were sent to members from here as well as from my Outlook Express using POP3 using that @Renderosity.com address.  I think I had that address less than a couple of weeks when I started to get all kinds of "you have won" or "get rich quick" type emails to this brand new, exclusive Renderosity email account.

I think I left staff at the end of April or the end of May and had to give back the @renderosity.com address.  I made a mistake of putting in my private Outlook Express email address from my ISP in my profile area. An address that I've had since 2000 or 2001. It was also an address that I had never used at any website of any kind, ever. I only used it for business purposes and for close friends. It had never received a single spam email, ever.  It was a matter of days after adding that address to my profile here, and only here, that I started to get email spam to this account. The same types of "you have won" and "get rich quick" type spam that I had been getting with the @renderosity.com one.

I changed to a gmail.com account that I have had for years and have never used on a website and that has sat dormant for almost as long as I've had that address which goes back to the days of when Google first introduced their gmail.  Again, no spam to that account of any kind...that is until I put it in my profile here, and only here at Renderosity,  as the email to use to contact me etc.  The gmail account that I have entered here is only used for here and no where else. I have it set up using POP3 so that the emails are delivered to my Outlook Express for more convenience.

I use one emaill address  for Daz and Poser Pros. It  is a hotmail address that goes back to 2003.  I have been using that email address via POP3 to my Outlook Express since the creation of the address,  It has never received a single spam email to it mainly because while I had it linked to POP3, I never used it for anything, but because it was grandfathered for POP3 privilges I kept it active by sending myself an occasional email so it wouldn't be deleted.  Despite having it in my account options at Daz and at Poser Pros, Nerd3D and I think 3D Commune, I still have never received a single spam email to that hotmail address.  The only thing that comes to that address are my purchase confirmations and newsletters which I sign up for.  A hotmail address with not a single spam email to it!

I also have another hotmail address that I have had for a couple of years. The only thing I use that address for is to sign on to MSN messenger  and to access one MSN Group. Again, a hotmail address that is about 2 years old that has never received a single email spam.  However, based on all of the above, I have no doubts that if I were to enter that address here at Renderosity, that I would start to receive spam mailings to it too.

I am not saying it's Renderosity sending me the spam. I am saying that they have a problem with their mail server which has been acknowledged by staff already, which is causing the spam to filter through.    Daz and Poser Pros manages to keep their mail server secure enough that the emails used there are not receiving spam. Why can't Renderosity do the same thing?

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi